(pronounced hijab-ease) is a word Rose made
up to identify the group of Muslim and non-Muslim
friends who joined together to support her
hijab-wearing school friend, Camelia. A member of
the Hijab-Ez is a girl who wears a head covering
regardless of her religious beliefs.
Grandma
is a new revert to Islam. Her granddaughter Rose
lives next door and spends most of her time with
Grandma. Rose wants to be a Muslim, but her
non-Muslim father objects. So Rose is learning all
she can about Islam for the day she is older and
can say that she has chosen to be Muslim because
she has learned the truth of Islam.
Character
Descriptions:
Grandma:
An older Muslimah, kind of chubby. She wears
glasses perched on the end of her nose all the
time. She likes to wear black, Saudi-style abayas,
but large colorful hijabs (covering her chest)
that are pinned beneath her chin with butterfly
pins.
Rose:
Short and skinny. She has blue eyes, bangs and a
single long, yellow braid down her back. She loves
pink and wears modest calf-length skirts and
long-sleeved blouses. She is a young Christian
girl who wants to be a Muslim like her Grandma.
She has a very prominent sprinkling of freckles
across her cheeks and nose. She wears a large
bandanna on her head tied at the nape of her neck.
You can see her braid and bangs.
Camelia:
Rose’s Egyptian-American friend. Camelia is
chubby, has light skin like her mom but very dark
brown eyes like her daddy. Camelia loves bright
colors but doesn’t often match them together
very well. She wears a short head scarf, and a few
auburn wisps of hair are always creeping out and
onto her forehead. She has the habit of twisting
one of the ends of her scarf when excited or
upset.
Judy:
Camelia’s mother. She is a Muslim revert like
Grandma but has been a Muslimah for many years.
Like Camelia, she loves colorful jilbabs and likes
to wear different styles of head covering that
always match beautifully with her jilbab. Judy has
wide green eyes and is always smiling. She is of
medium height and is slender, but not skinny. A
bangle bracelet is often seen poking out from one
of her sleeves.
Reyhannah:
She is a tall thin girl whose parents emigrated
from India. Reyhannah was born in the USA and is
also Muslim. She loves to wear traditional
Indian–Muslim coverings, and she likes orange
and red colors and flower-patterned clothes that
are light-weight. She has long slender fingers and
wears several bangles on both wrists. Her skin
tone is dark and her eyes are almost black.
