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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1948, 12-year-old Amil, who is both Muslim and Hindu, struggles to find his place in Bombay, India, until his twin sister suggests he tell his story through drawings meant for their late mother as he tries to find hope and a sense of belonging in a chaotic world"--
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"--
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."--
Omar is always full of ideas! His family's favorite mosque needs a new roof, and Omar's money-raising plans are brilliant, especially the talent contest at school. It's a huge success, but the next day, the money is missing! Omar needs all of his super-spy creativity to track down the thief....
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between worlds. There's the proper one her parents expect for their good Indian daughter: attending a college close to their suburban Chicago home, and being paired off with an older Muslim boy her mum deems "suitable." And then there is the world of her dreams: going to film school and living in New York City--and maybe (just maybe) pursuing a boy she's known from afar since grade school, a boy who's...
8) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.
12) Yo soy Muslim
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
Series
Zachary Ying volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his augmented reality gaming headset is possessed by the spirit of the First Emperor of China, twelve-year-old Chinese American Zack Ying is compelled to travel across China to steal an ancient artifact, fight figures from Chinese history and myth, and seal a portal to prevent malicious spirits from destroying the human realm.--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
16) The kindest red
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Sisters Faizah and Asiyah learn how to spread kindness on school picture day.
17) The night diary
Author
Language
English
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
18) 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.
19) 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
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of Egyptian Americans share special memories and a precious recipe in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of Ramadan"--
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