The main character in When I Win is a young girl excited by coding, biology, mountain biking, and more. The kids at her school only see her as a "black hijabi nerd". She decides to enter the science fair to show everyone else what she is made of.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

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