💍✨ COVER REVEAL ✨💍
Say hello to THE WEDDING WEEK by Aisha Saeed! This is not your typical wedding story.
When Hena Mirza returns home for her sister’s lavish Everglades resort wedding, she’s forced to confront the scandal that’s followed her for three years: her own fiancé vanished on their wedding day… and everyone thinks it was her fault. Now, during an eight-day desi celebration filled with gossiping aunties, family secrets, and rising tensions, strange incidents threaten to destroy yet another wedding.
Someone sabotaged Hena’s big day...And they might be back to finish what they started.
Secrets. Suspicion. Second chances. And danger lurking beneath the surface.
On sale 7.7.26! Preorder now wherever books are sold!
Cover reveal: Some book worlds stay with you long after you close the pages, and the Amal universe is definitely one of them. So I am incredibly excited to help reveal the cover for the final book in this trilogy: Hafsa’s Way by Aisha Saeed.
When Amal Unbound was part of the Global Read Aloud years ago, classrooms all over the world connected with Amal’s courage and her fight for justice. That story opened doors, hearts, and conversations — and many of us have been waiting to see where this world might take us next.
This time, we meet Hafsa, a girl with a fierce dream of becoming a doctor. Getting into Bukhari Summer Science Camp should be her big break, but nothing about her path is simple. Her parents don’t believe girls should pursue medicine, the camp is expensive, and Lahore feels impossibly far away. Only with the help of her sister and brother-in-law does she finally get to go.
And once she arrives? Everything shifts. She enrolled in the wrong program by accident, she stands out for all the wrong reasons, and she’s suddenly navigating friendships, expectations, and a world that doesn’t make much room for girls like her. A field trip to the zoo — and an unexpected encounter with an elephant — begins to change her understanding of what’s possible.
Hafsa’s determination, resilience, and hope make this a powerful conclusion to a world so many readers have connected with. I cannot wait to see how this story lands in classrooms and hands everywhere.
And if you’re heading to NCTE, make sure to stop by the Penguin booth, rumor has it there will be advanced review copies available.🫰
Hafsa’s Way comes out March 10th, 2026. Here is your chance to preorder now — I know can’t wait to return to this world one last time.
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With so much going wrong, I’m grateful for the small joys that keep me lifted. Like stories. Like this picture book YOU AND ME, BABY about that particular moment when your parenthood dream comes true and you hold your baby and feel…. terrified. Because somehow you are now responsible for this sweet perfect creature and who put you in charge when you have no idea what you’re doing? Inspired by my own experiences and emotions as a first time mom, I hope this book will be not only a fun read aloud for parent and child, but a reminder to new parents that we— child and parent— are in it together and we’ll learn together as we go.
Many thanks for @penguinkids and @nancyrosep and special shout out to @artsyebby for the extra special illustrations that I love so much!
YOU AND ME, BABY is available for preorder right now, please be sure to grab it for a new or expecting parent in your life 🤗
Lovely weekend talking all things HAFSA’S WAY 🥰 starting with a local school visit thanks to @pageturners_rule and @littleshopofstories and then their lovely Little Shop of Stories Children’s Book Festival where I was in conversation with wildly talented @brennathummler
Grateful to my local bookish community ❤️
The “Amal Unbound” series is the gift 🎁 that keeps giving US reasons to turn the page! 📄 Thanks to our friend, @aishacs , we get to #READ about Amal’s amazing friends who are refusing to take “NO” for an answer!
We look forward to sharing Hafsa’s story with students at Hightower Elementary School. 💝
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Aisha Saeed is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of books for children, including her middle grade novels Omar Rising and Amal Unbound (a New York Times bestseller and Global Read Aloud).
Her picture book Bilal Cooks Daal received an APALA honor, and she also wrote the picture books Zuni and the Memory Jar and The Together Tree.
Aisha is also a founding member of the nonprofit We Need Diverse Books™. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family.
In partnership with our pageturning pals at @littleshopofstories ! 🐘
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🌸 Discover three powerful stories starring three unforgettable characters from New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed!
📚 In Amal Unbound, Amal fights to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.
📚 In Omar Rising, Omar contends with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
📚 In Hafsa's Way, Hafsa pushes back against her family’s expectations—and discovers her own power.
Looking for your kid's next empowering middle grade read? 📚 From New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed, HAFSA’S WAY follows a determined girl who refuses to give up on her dream of becoming a doctor—even when her family and circumstances seem to stand in her way. A powerful story about courage, resilience, and forging your own path.
Excited to head to Springfield, IL for @ilreadcouncil in just a bit! Excited to share about HAFSA’S WAY and to be among the people who bring books to the kids who need them. ☺️❤️🙌🏾
For tweens who love stories about courage, ambition, and finding their voice, Aisha Saeed's newest middle grade novel, HAFSA’S WAY, is a powerful read. When Hafsa heads to a summer science camp in Lahore, she’s determined to get one step closer to her dream of becoming a doctor. But between family expectations, a program mix-up, and feeling like an outsider, she’ll have to learn what it really means to stand up for herself and her future.
Happy Book Birthday — HAFSA’S WAY
Congratulations to @aishacs on the release of HAFSA’S WAY, the companion middle grade novel to AMAL UNBOUND and OMAR RISING.
Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!
