Omar feels miserable. He's starting a new school, a Big Mean Bully threatens he'll be kicked out of the country because he's Muslim, and his neighbor is very, very suspicious. When Omar makes a new best friend, things start to look up. Lively text and spirited, cartoony art reveal a boy with a vivid imaginative whose goofy family and friends support his worries about being different in the first book in the Planet Omar series.

2021 USBBY Outstanding International Book and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

The author lives in London. The illustrator is based in Indonesia.

UK. Originally published in English by Hoddor and Stoughton in 2019. Published in the United States by Putnam's in 2020.