Elhillo, Safia
Summary: "Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JAVDweck, Nicole.
Summary: "Four hundred years before Oskar Schindler there was Suleiman the Magnificent, an Ottoman sultan who rescued thousands of Jews from the Inquisition. Inspired by this amazing moment in history, Nicole Dweck has imagined an enchanting family saga in the tradition of Anita Diamant's The Red Tent and Nomi Eve's The Family Orchard. In 1544, as Inquisition fires rage in Portugal, young José Mendez...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2015
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Summary: "Raised in India, Seema is the beloved daughter of a commanding, erudite, Romantic-poetry-loving doctor father who cut her off when she came out to him as a lesbian. Now living alone in San Francisco, estranged from her African American ex-husband, Seema is one week away from delivering a baby boy, Ishraaq. Ishraaq's arrival has brought to Seema's side, for the first time in 15 years, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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Summary: 2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAFFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: It is library day and helper Yasmin is busy shelving books, but suddenly she discovers that her own special book is missing prompting her to calmly retrace her steps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021
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Summary: Everyone seems to have an idea for the science fair except for Yasmin, but after some failed experiments Yasmin's snack break with Nani inspires an idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2021
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Summary: A young Pakistani boy, whose parents left the fundamentalists behind when they came to America, finds transformation and a path to happiness through a family friend, Mina, who shows him the beauty and power of the Quran.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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Summary: Unsure about her artistic skills, second-grader Yasmin is not looking forward to the art competition at school--but with the support and encouragement of her family she produces a prize-winning painting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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Summary: While her parents are out to dinner, a bored Yasmin decides to try on some of her mother's clothes, including her new shalwar kameez, which gets ripped--but with the help of Nana, Nani, and a glue-gun, the garment gets fixed, and Yasmin puts on an impromptu fashion show when her parents get home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARNuurali, Siman
Summary: Sadiq and his friends are starting a video game club at school and planning a tournament for the whole school to participate in, but their teacher reminds them that they also have to have a service pledge, and they are not really sure how video games fit in with the goal of helping others--until a visit to an assisted living home where his mother volunteers gives him an idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUNuurali, Siman
Summary: There is an empty lot in Sadiq's neighborhood which is in serious need of cleaning up, and Sadiq has come up with an idea of what to do with it afterwards: build a community garden--so Sadiq sets out to get his classmates and friends involved and make the garden a true community success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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Summary: "Yasmin's family is hosting a big party, but Yasmin is worried that the traditional food her family is cooking is too spicy--so her family challenges Yasmin to come up with a dish of her own." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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Summary: Meet Yasmin! Yasmin is a spirited second-grader who's always on the lookout for those "aha" moments to help her solve life's little problems. Taking inspiration from her surroundings and her big imagination, she boldly faces any situation, assuming her imagination doesn't get too big, of course! A creative thinker and curious explorer, Yasmin and her multi-generational Pakistani American family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2019
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Summary: Eight-year-old Sadiq wants to try out for the youth football team like his friends, but his parents feel he is too young, and instead suggest that he take up running and join the track club--Sadiq feels that running is wimpy, but the coach convinces him that running races can be fun as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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Summary: In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: A collection of four new stories featuring Yasmin! Whether she's on the soccer field braving the goalie net for the first time, trouble-shooting a plant problem i nthe garden with her family, or managing a disagreement with her friends, Yasmin is always willing to give it her best shot. Yasmin can do it!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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Summary: Sadiq's class is visiting the pond on a nature field trip, but the dead fish they find there is disturbing; when he finds that the likely cause is pollution, he and a group of his classmates form the Clean Water Crew to do what they can to help clean up not just their pond, but other bodies of water as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUMasood, Syed
Summary: "Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Summary: A deeply personal novel about about finding identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, an American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post-Trump America and with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2020
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Summary: Sadiq's third grade class decides that they want a classroom pet, and their teacher, Ms. Battersby, is okay with the idea, so the students form a club to decide what kind of pet to get, and to research how to take care of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE NUUAziz, Susannah
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AZIVanBrakle, Khadijah
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Fatima Tate, aspiring baker (100% against her conservative parents' wishes), leads a pretty normal life in long drives with BFF Zaynab, weekly services at the mosque, big family parties, soup kitchen volunteering (the best way to perfect her flaky dough recipe!), stressing about college. But everything changes when she meets a charming university student named Raheem. Knowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023