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Language
English
Description
"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
Ahmed Aziz is having an epic yearepically bad. After his dad gets sick, the family moves from Hawaii to Minnesota for his dads treatment. Even though his dad grew up there, Ahmed cant imagine a worse place to live. Hes one of the only brown kids in his...
Author
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Sands of Arawiya volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old huntress Zafira must disguise herself as a man to seek a lost artifact that could return magic to her cursed world.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-- but neither...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means 'star' and Punam means 'moon'--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
583 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world inspired by ancient Arabia, seventeen-year-old Zafira and the sultan's son Nasir continue their quest to uncover a lost magic artifact and discover that the prize they seek may be even more dangerous than any of their enemies.
Author
Series
Newbery Medal award volume 1962
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.
9) Yatimah
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a mid-ninth-century Bedouin camp in the Arabian Desert, a horse is born to a prized Arabian war mare who dies during the birth, and the foal is raised with dreams of continuing her mother's glory as a war mare. Includes facts about Arabian horses and their importance to Bedouin tribes.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike his news-reporter father and art-historian mother who find living in the ancient, war-torn country of Balabad endlessly interesting, twelve-year-old Oliver, homesick for New York City, feels very much out of his element until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure.
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
13) Golden girl
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block ... for the fourth time. California's Newport Beach is her family's latest perch, and she's determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name--Cindy. It's the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages.
15) Yatandou
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
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Description
"Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they work, the women dream of a machine that can grind the millet...
16) The best at it
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
17) Unsettled
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
18) Sharp shot
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
xxi, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
British twins Rich and Jade Chance are back for a third adventure with their spy father as they try to save the Middle East and the President of the United States from a terrorist government coup.
19) White Needle
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
Syrian rebels have gotten their hands on a White Needle, or stolen chemical weapon, and plan to use it on an unknown target. Only Shadow Squadron has the talent and technology to locate and neutralize the missile before it's launched.
Author
Series
Cooper kids adventure volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An American archeologist and his two children seek God's protection and guidance as they journey to the Near East in search of a buried biblical treasure which local residents believe is cursed.