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1) Here to stay
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Young Adults
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Back to School, More Titles - Young Adult
Asian Pacific American Heritage - 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) 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.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 2
Language
English
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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
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...
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 1
Language
English
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Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Bullying Prevention Month Tweens
Description
Fifth-grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are hoping to go to the Magnet Academy for their middle school years, instead of Harbortown Elementary/Middle School; but when a new girl Dana Denver starts tormenting Farah and her younger brother, Samir, she decides she can not leave Samir to face the bully alone, especially since the adults and even Allie do not seem to be taking the matter seriously--so Farah comes up with a plan, one which...
Author
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2023
Jewish American Heritage - Tweens
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 3-5 2023
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2023
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...
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