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The Blue Dress

The Blue Dress

Morrison, Rebecca

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0374393605
ISBN13: 9780374393601
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In this National Education Association Read Across America Selection, an Iranian American girl navigates complicated relationships with her mother, her best friend, and her body image. Unflinching and ultimately uplifting, The Blue Dress is a middle grade debut perfect for fans of Jasmine Warga and Starfish.

Sometimes Yasmin feels like her body isn't hers. And it's not just because puberty has mounted a full-on alien invasion, or that emigrating from Iran a year-and-a-half ago has meant one change after another. It's also because her mother constantly pushes her to lose weight, like sewing Yasmin a beautiful blue dress for Persian New Year that is too tight on purpose.

At school, it doesn't help that Yasmin's best friend, Carmen, is petite and close to her own mother, or that popular-girl Zoe always has a mean comment to spare. Yasmin is sure her crush, Jack, won't ever like her the way she is, either.

With the pressure to fit in closing in on all sides, Yasmin starts taking desperate measures. But if being thin is supposed to make her happier, then why does losing weight feel like losing parts of herself, too?

From debut author Rebecca Morrison comes The Blue Dress, a heart-rending, funny, and hopeful book inspired by her own life, relatable to anyone who has ever needed to break away from someone else's vision of how they should look in order to embrace their true self.

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