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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
2) X: a novel
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Co-written by Malcolm X's daughter, this riveting and revealing novel follows the formative years of the man whose words and actions shook the world.
Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies--after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away, and his dreams of becoming a lawyer have gotten him laughed out of school. There's no point in trying, he...
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Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: It?s 2002, a year after 9/11. It?s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who?s tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She?s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments?even the physical violence?she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she?s built up protective...
5) Temple folk
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America"--
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A lyrical celebration of multiculturalism as a parent shares with a child the value of their heritage and why it should be a source of pride, even when others disagree.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling and thought-provoking debut novel, after a terrorist attack rocks the country and anti-Islamic sentiment stirs, three Black Muslim girls create a space where they can shatter assumptions and share truths."--Amazon.
In Virginia, Sabriya has her whole summer planned-- until a terrorist attack near her home. When the terrorist is assumed to be Muslim and Islamophobia grows, Sabriya turns to her online journal for comfort. When the...
10) Mommy's khimar
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.
11) My first Ramadan
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy observes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan with his family.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Carman.
13) Epic hero flop
Author
Series
Planet Omar volume 4
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 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"--
14) Under my hijab
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
02/05/2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
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As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustration ; 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.
Series
Planet Omar volume 1
Publisher
Putnam/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2010, c2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While buying gifts for his family to wear to the mosque on Eid a shoemaker is persuaded to get new pants for himself, but the only pair available is too long and no one seems to have time to shorten them.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lush, sweeping debut novel in the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, about a Hindu perfumer and a Muslim calligrapher, who fall in love against the backdrop of Partition. 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...
19) Amina's voice
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 197 pages ; 22 cm
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"--
20) Abdul's story
Author
Language
English
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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
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