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Nayeri, Daniel

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Summary: "At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NAY

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NAY

Javaherbin, Mina

Summary: "While Mina is growing up in Iran, the center of her world is her grandmother. Whether visiting friends next door, going to the mosque for midnight prayers during Ramadan, or taking an imaginary trip around the planets, Mina and her grandma are never far apart. At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Mina Javaherbin's words make up a love letter of the rarest sort: the kind that shares a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE JAV

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAV

Afshar, Tessa

Summary: "Jemmah has always thought of herself as perfectly ordinary . . . until she faces extraordinary circumstances. When her mother, the Persian king's famous senior scribe, is kidnapped, Jemmah and her sister must sneak undetected into enemy territory to rescue her. But infiltrating their adversary's lands proves easier than escaping them. Fleeing through dangerous mountain passes, their survival...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Afshar

Van Lente, Fred.

Summary: Iron Man must find a way to keep the Plantman from using the creeping doom to end the domination of animals over the Earth.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VAN

McDonnell, Patrick

Summary: "Imbued with the creativity, artwork, and heart of Patrick McDonnell, this all-new graphic novel love letter features the classic Marvel super heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Black Panther, and Spider-Man, and is the synthesis of McDonnell's positive, inspirational sensibility and Marvel's blockbuster brand. Using the Marvel Universe as avatars,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MCD

Van Lente, Fred.

Summary: As Tony Stark battles an Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) siege engine, he reflects on how he became Iron Man following his capture six months earlier by A.I.M., who planned to force him to create weapons for them. To escape he teams up with Professor Gia-Bao Yinsen. The two build special iron suits to protect them on their way out of the A.I.M. facility.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VAN

Van Lente, Fred.

Summary: Spymaster has seized remote control of Iron Man's armor and sent Shellhead on a rampage of destruction through New York! Can Rhodey figure out how to free the Armored Avenger before Hammer takes over Tony Stark's company along with his alter-ego?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VAN

Satrapi, Marjane

Summary: "Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir. Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2007

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Summary: Documentary in three parts. Offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the U.S. presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Typecast Releasing 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IRA

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