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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
62) Guantanamo boy
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Six months after the events of September 11, 2001, Khalid, a Muslim fifteen-year-old boy from England, is kidnapped during a family trip to Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is held for two years suffering interrogations, water-boarding, isolation, and more for reasons unknown to him.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Shirin wants to join her family and other Muslims in fasting for Ramadan but is told she is too young, and so she seeks other ways to participate including, perhaps, getting along better with her older brother, Ali.
65) Hiss-s-s-s!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
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
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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.
68) Time to pray
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When young Yasmin goes for a visit, her grandmother teaches her a Muslim's daily prayers, makes special prayer clothes, and gives a gift that will help Yasmin remember when to pray. Includes facts about prayer customs.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya come to terms with her own lukewarm practice of the faith and her embarrassment over others' reactions to their beliefs.
70) The outsider
Author
Series
Ash Rashid novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Detective Ash Rashid has finished law school and is ready to swap his badge for a courtroom as a prosecutor, but when it seems the rest of the Indianapolis police force might ignore rather than investigate a murdered mother, he finds himself entagled in a mix of politics, crime and street justice.
72) Kampung boy
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST : CORPUS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
In 2022 France, a conservative Islamic party comes to power, and François, a porn-loving professor that sleeps with his students, is confronted with life-changing choice—whether or not to take an irresistible academic advancement, on one important condition: that he convert to Islam.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur'an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Pakistani American Zahra makes an impulsive decision to run away from home and move to New York in an attempt to heal, learn to love herself, and renew her faith in family while navigating mental health and religious guilt.
77) Lion of the sky
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Raj is happiest flying kites with his best friend, Iqbal. As their kites soar, Raj feels free, like his beloved India soon will be, and he can't wait to celebrate their independence. But when a British lawyer draws a line across a map, splitting India in two, Raj is thrust into a fractured world. With Partition declared, Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim families are torn apart--and Raj's Hindu and Iqbal's Muslim families are among them. Forced...
Author
Series
Ms. Marvel (2014) volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Zara is less than thrilled to be spending spring break with her brother and grandparents, but she is determined to have fun and show her retired grandfather how to start living his best life.
80) Enduring freedom
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"--
On September 11, 2001, the lives of two boys on opposite sides of the world are changed in an instant. The family of Baheer, a studious Afghan...