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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together. Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he's rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper. Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding a conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying. Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss...
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his friends team up to raise money to save his family's favorite mosque, and when the money goes missing, they find the most unlikely culprit."--
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--
4) Amina's song
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.--
6) Hiss-s-s-s!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a Muslim American boy named Omar finally convinces his family that he should have a pet snake, it escapes and Omar learns why his mother is so scared of them.
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet--a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion--it must be aliens! Omar has a huge imagination, but saving his teacher from aliens seems far-fetched even to him....
8) Golden girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Malcolm X
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
40 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life, beliefs, and achievements of the Black Muslim leader who was assassinated in 1965.
11) Barakah Beats
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
13) Unsettled
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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) Lost boys
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1982 Iran, twelve-year-old Reza is more interested in music than war, but enlists in obedience to his devout mother and soon finds himself in a prison camp in Iraq.
19) Malcolm X
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Malcolm X, focusing on the incidents that led to his belief that blacks should be willing to use any tactics necessary to secure their freedom and equality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the controversial African-American civil rights activist from his troubled childhood, through his years as a national leader in the Nation of Islam, to his assassination.
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