Overview

Kat Habib is the butt of every fat joke at Franklin Park Middle School. She's longing to escape, and her wish is granted in the weirdest way-she is accidentally abducted by an alien fashion house. Instantly hailed as an exotic beauty by the spiderlike aliens (who appreciate a good posterior), she becomes their inspiration for a new clothing line for the ""Path of Glory,"" a sector-wide fashion competition. Surrounded by eccentric aliens and caught up in the whirl of galactic social media, shy Kat is just trying to keep her head down until she can get back to Earth. Unfortunately for Kat, the universe has other plans... ● Runner-up in the James River Writers Best Unpublished Novel Competition ● Finalist in the London Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition

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""A girl body-shamed by her peers becomes a fashion star on a faraway planet in Hamid's debut middle-grade novel. Radiant characters electrify a witty and topical SF romp."" -- Kirkus Reviews

Author Information

Ivy Hamid is a writer of middle-grade fantasy who lives in Richmond, Virginia. She was an artsy kid who studied art history when she grew up, and has worked in and around museums ever since. After doing time in New York, slightly to the south of Sing Sing, she moved down to the real South. Ivy belongs to the James River Writers, the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and an awesome critique group called the Richmond Fantasy Collective. ""I Was an Alien Fashion Model"" is her first novel.

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