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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.
82) Saving Sunshine
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. It's even harder when you're constantly fighting your sibling--and Zara and Zeeshan really can't stand each other. During a family trip to Florida, when the bickering, shoving, and insults reach new heights of chaos, their parents sentence them to the worst possible fate--each other's company! But when the twins find an ailing turtle, it presents a rare...
83) Abdul's story
Author
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.
Author
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Somali
Description
A young girl considers the women she knows and the various colors of the hijab they wear. Muslim women have many varied jobs and wear their hijab as they work. She wants to be like them. The hijab becomes a crowning touch for her--a representation of faith, identity, and fashion.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Berkley trade edition.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag
Language
English
Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
87) Mommy's khimar
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young girl plays dress up with her mothers headscarves, feeling her mothers love with every one she tries on" --
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her family moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was a baby, seventeen-year-old Zara Hossain has only ever called Corpus Christi home. Being the only Muslim girl at her conservative Catholic school, blending in isn't really an option, especially with people like Tyler Benson always tormenting her. But one day Tyler takes things too far by defacing Zara's locker with a racist message, which gets him suspended. As an act of revenge, Tyler...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediately put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
Her mom said their case with immigration was fine. If this was a lie, what else is? Alone in Brooklyn with her younger brother, Kamal, Rania will have to figure out how to survive. When they wind up in a home with...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perfume bottles in his family's ittar shop in Lahore. Over the years that follow, the perfumer's apprentice and calligrapher's apprentice fall in love with their ancient crafts and with each other, dreaming of the life they will one day share. But as the struggle for Indian independence gathers force, their beloved city is ravaged by Partition. Suddenly,...
91) Enduring freedom
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this dual-narrative tale, a teenage American army private and an Afghan boy living under the horrors of the Taliban, caught on separate sides of the world during the tumultuous times leading up to and following 9/11, come to discover how much more they have in common than they ever could have imagined" --
92) A feast of fun
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Khadija is missing her family who are in Pakistan, but when Aunt Jane announces that she is marrying her long time boyfriend, Clyde, Khadija assumes the role of wedding planner--but counselor Layla is behaving strangely and Khadija is convinced that she is planning to sabotage the wedding.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune, she's not sure what will happen. What she doesn't expect though is for her roommate Elizabeth to disappear after Sade's first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it. With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.
The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and...
95) Sister friend
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ameena feels invisible. It's been that way since she started at her new school. But now there is another new girl in class. Ameena sees her brownness, her hijab, even though the other kids do not. Ameena wants to be her friend, but she can't seem to find the right words or do the right things. Until one day, they find them together: "Assalamu Alaikum, Sister. Welcome.""--
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Written in the cumulative style of "The House that Jack Built," this picture book builds a rhythmic list of reasons a young Muslim boy, Kamal, loves going to his masjid on Fridays for Jumu'ah prayer.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
98) Beautifully me
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Zubi, a happy Bangladeshi girl, is excited about her first day of school, but at breakfast she is puzzled by her mother and older sister worrying about being "too big," and even at school she hears other people criticizing each other's bodies, and she starts to worry that maybe something is wrong with how she looks--until her declaration at dinner that she is on a diet makes her family realize what they have been doing wrong.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
100) Epic hero flop
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Omar takes the blame for a few small things to keep his friends out of trouble, he feels great--until something big happens and everyone thinks Omar did it"--
Is there ever a good time to tell a lie? When his best friend Daniel messes up at school, Omar decides to take the blame to save Daniel from getting in troublewhich makes Omar feel like a total hero! Being treated like a hero feels great, so he does it again. But then something more serious...