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The 2026 Read for Empathy collection has just dropped and guess whose YA debut has made the cut….    For the past decade, Read for Empathy has been bringing together books that help young people connect with themselves, each other, and the wider world, because...

I’d love you to join me for a special in-conversation event where I’ll be talking about Odd Girl Out and my journey as a writer. We’ll be exploring themes from Odd Girl Out, including identity, friendship, culture, and belonging, as well as my background, how I found...

Author of the Carnegie nominated YA Odd Girl Out, The Thirty Before Thirty List   and  Finding Mr Perfectly Fine www.tasneemabdurrashid.co.uk https://linktr.ee/tasneemabdurrashid

ODD GIRL OUT FEATURED IN VOGUE ARABIA Don’t you just love reading about cities that you’re intimately familiar with? In April, Tasneem Abdur-Rashid, who once wrote the bestselling page-turner Desperate in Dubai under a pseudonym, released her latest book about a...

Still pinching myself after my visit to Hornsey School for Girls last Friday - my old secondary school and the place where so much of who I am began. Honestly, teenage me would never have believed that one day I’d be invited back as an author. She’d assume I was lost...

I’m absolutely thrilled to share that my debut YA novel, Odd Girl Out, has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 2026! The Carnegies are among the most prestigious awards in children’s and young adult literature, celebrating outstanding writing that...