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2) Here to stay
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Back to School, More Titles - Young Adult
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Back to School, More Titles - Young Adult
Description
When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
3) Man o' war
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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ALA Youth Media Awards 2023 - Young Adults
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Description
On a field trip to SeaPlanet, seventeen-year-old Arab-American high school swimmer River McIntyre has a chance encounter with Indy, a happy, healthy queer person, which sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage - More Children
Description
Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne,...
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Language
English
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Description
Lulu Saad doesn't need your advice, thank you very much. She's got her three best friends and nothing can stop her from conquering the known world. Sure, for half a minute she thought she'd nearly drowned a cute guy at a party, but he was totally faking it. And fine, yes, she caused a scene during Ramadan. It's all under control. Ish. Except maybe this time she's done a little more damage than she realizes. And if Lulu can't find her way out of this...
8) You & yours
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume no. 93
Language
English
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Description
"In You & Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this county, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.
10) Here we are now
Author
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage - More Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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Description
While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Farah spends much of her summer trying to earn money to attend an enrichment camp at her new school, but someone is sabotaging her by taking down her fliers. Includes glossaries and instructions for growing crystals.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"To the Mansours, an Arab American family living in Seattle, love knows no borders. But despite our best efforts, sometimes love-and family-are foreign to us. American-born Margaret Mansour wants nothing more than to rekindle the struggling twenty-year marriage to her Palestinian husband, Ahmed-but not if it means uprooting their home and children in America and moving halfway across the world. Young and ambitious Alison Mansour has a degree in...
14) Towelhead
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Jasira, a 13-year-old Arab-American girl, as she navigates the confusing and frightening path of adolescence and her own sexual awakening after moving to suburban Houston with her strict father.
Author
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
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Description
Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...
16) Crescent
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
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Description
Never married, living with an Iraqi-immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, thirty-nine-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.
17) Shiny misfits
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Bay Ann is sure her tap dance will shine at the school talent show, but when her crush, Alyee Maq, catches her before she falls (which was his fault, anyway) and gets all the "fame," she's determined to beat him at his own attention-seeking game.
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