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Diverse Reads for All Ages April 2024
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Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr
by Sara Khan
Children can follow Raya, her Mama and Aba as they celebrate Ramadan by enjoying Iftar, baking cookies, doing good deeds around their community and visiting the mosque, in this celebratory, inclusive and educational book that features a fun‘factivity' section. Illustrations.
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In My Mosque
by M. O. Yuksel
Complemented by extensive back matter, a debut picture book featuring culturally rich artwork by the illustrator of the Yasmin series celebrates the joys, rituals and traditions that are practiced in mosques throughout the world.
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Halal hot dogs
by Susannah Aziz
Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share
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Looking for the Eid moon
by Sahtinay Abaza
"Two sisters search the night sky, looking for the crescent moon that signals the start of Eid, the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan"
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Deep in the Sahara
by Kelly Cunnane
Longing to wear a colorful malafa cloth like the women in her Muslim community in Mauritania, young Lalla learns how the garment honors her faith and cultural traditions before her mother invites her to try on a beautiful blue cloth and join her in prayers. By the award-winning author of For You Are a Kenyan Child.
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Huda F are you?
by Huda Fahmy
"Huda F. is starting high school in a new town and needs to figure out where she fits in"
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All-American Muslim girl
by Nadine Jolie Courtney
A nonpracticing Muslim-American teen, the daughter of a famous conservative shock jock, witnesses acts of Islamophobia in her small town that prompts her courageous study and embrace of her faith. By the author of Romancing the Throne. Simultaneous eBook.
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We free the stars
by Hafsah Faizal
A conclusion to the duology that began with We Hunt the Flame finds Zafira, Nasir and Kifah navigating limited resources, reluctant allies and a fearful kingdom to finish a captive Altair's plan to restore magic to all of Arawiya. 100,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook.
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Home is not a country
by Safia Elhillo
A novel in verse follows the experiences of a misfit teen in a discriminatory suburban community who questions her mixed heritage before unexpected family revelations force her to fight for her own identity. By the award-winning author of The January Children. Simultaneous eBook.
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Travelers along the way : a Robin Hood remix
by Aminah Mae Safi
In this reimagination of the legend of Robin Hood, Rahma al-Hud and her older sister Zeena travel to Jerusalem for a final mission, and on their way they assemble a ragtag band of misfits and get swept up in Holy Land politics
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Letters to a young Muslim
by Omar Saif Ghobash
Omar Saif Ghobash was born in 1971 in the United Arab Emirates--the same year the country was founded--to an Arab father and a Russian mother. After a traumatizing experience losing his father to a violent attack in 1977, when he was only six years old,Ghobash began to realize the severe violence that surrounded him in his home country.This book is the result of the personal exploration Ghobash went through in the years after his father's death.
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But you don't look Arab : and other tales of unbelonging
by Hala Gorani
The renowned international news anchor reflects on her experiences as the daughter of Syrian parents raised mainly in France and how it shaped her sense of identity while reporting on Middle East conflicts. 30,000 first printing.
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Homeland elegies : a novel
by Ayad Akhtar
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world.
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You exist too much : a novel
by Zaina Arafat
Told in vignettes that occur in American and Middle East settings, a debut novel follows the experiences of a young Palestinian-American who is marginalized for her sexual orientation before the traumas of her past drive her toward self-destructive impulses. A first novel.
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