107 pages • 3 hours read
Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 37-45Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 37 Summary
Someone has reported the girls leaving school, so Mr. Pearse gives them a week of lunchtime detentions. He asks Amal to stay behind and tells her he will not be informing the principal of this, because he understands the stress she must be under because of her religion. He is being supportive in a clumsy way.
Amal finally gets through to Leila, who sounds subdued and flat, and she tells Amal that her family has brought another boy for her to meet.
In the evening, Mrs. Vaselli invites Amal for tea and cake, and Amal sees she has taken out her best china. Mrs. Vaselli reveals she has called her son and that he and his family might soon come to visit.
Chapter 38 Summary
As Amal arrives home from school, she finds Leila’s parents in her living room. Leila has run away from home. Her mother tells them that they have found an excellent match for her, a man who lives in America but comes from the same village as Leila’s mom, but Leila refused to speak to him. Amal’s mom tries to explain that Leila is “still so young and her duty,
