- JUNIOR HIGH FICTION
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Anahita's Woven Riddle
Richly detailed and enchanting novel, set in 20th-century Persia Anahita, a nomad, learns that her father has promised her hand in marriage to a man she dislikes. Determined to have a say in her own fate, Anahita convinces her father to let her hold a contest, in which potential suitors must correctly.
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Ask Me No Questions
- Marina Tamar Budhos
Before 9/11, like thousands of other illegal immigrants in the USA, Nadira's family is relatively successful both in avoiding attention from authorities and in their daily way of life. But afterwards, everything crumbles in the post-9/11 crackdown.
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Beduins' Gazelle
- Frances Temple
In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.
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Child of Dandelions
- Shenaaz Nanji*
In 1972, fifteen-year-old Sabine has a happy life in Uganda, until military president Idi Amin orders all Indians to leave the country.
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Dahling, If You Luv Me, Would You Please, Please Smile
- Rukhsana Khan*
Zainab, a young Canadian Muslim, has many difficulties making friends at school.
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Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Randa Abdel-Fattah
Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full-time and everyone has a reaction, from her parents and friends to strangers on the street in her Australian hometown.
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Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing Up in the Arab World Today
- Elsa Marston
A collection of five stories portraying teen life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and Iraq today.
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Habibi
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
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Kampung Boy
- Lat
Relates, in cartoon format, the life experiences of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in Malaysia.
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Little Piece of Ground
- Elizabeth Laird
Karim Abboud longs to play football outside with his friends, but he and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew and there is constant danger outside from the Israeli army.
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Shadow Spinner
- Susan Fletcher
When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
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Shadows of Ghadames
- Joelle Stolz
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.
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Under the Persimmon Tree
- Suzanne Fisher Staples
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee, and Nusrat, an American Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Wishing Moon
- Michael Tunnell
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by a genie allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance.
- SENIOR HIGH FICTION
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Angel with One Hundred Wings: A Tale from the Arabian Nights
- Daniel Horch
Alchemist Abulhassan must choose between betraying his oldest friend and betraying his most beloved one in this tale of adventure, intrigue and romance set in ninth-century Baghdad.
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Better than a Thousand Months: An American Muslim Family Celebration
- Hassaun Ali Jones-Bey
An American family celebrates Ramadan
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Damascus Nights
- Rafik Schami
In 1959, the most famous storyteller in Damascus mysteriously loses his voice. To break the spell, seven of his friends gather to present him with seven wondrous stories of their own.
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
- Faiza Guene
15-year-old Doria and her illiterate mother have been abandoned by Doria's alcoholic father and are stuck in a Paris housing project, dependent on welfare and subjected to a succession of social workers, yet they are determined to make the best of things.
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Kite Runner
- Khaled Hosseini
The story of friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan and the act of cowardice that haunts one of them until he is able to atone for it, years later.
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Refugees
- Catherine Stine
Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dawn, a sixteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco, connects by phone and email with Johar, a gentle, fifteen-year-old Afghani who assists Dawn's foster mother, a doctor, at a Red Cross refugee camp in Peshawar.
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Road to Chlifa
- Michele Marineau*
Karim journeys from his home in war-torn Beirut to his new high school in Quebec, where he faces hostility, contempt and racism.
- NON-FICTION, FOLK TALES AND POETRY
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Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents
- Sarah Conover and Freda Crane
An anthology drawing on the core of Islamic spirituality and ethics as well as mystical verse and folktales from all parts of the Muslim world.
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Being Muslim
- Haroon Siddqui*
From the perspective of an author living in Canada, various branches of Islam are examined and their history outlined.
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Islam
- Paul Lunde
An illustrated survey of the faith, culture and history of Islam
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Mosque
- David Macaulay
Detailed drawings and text follow the construction of a magnificent 16th-century mosque in the Ottoman empire.
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
- Marjane Satrapi
Memoir told in comic-strip format of Marjane's girlhood in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution.
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Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
- Naomi Shihab Nye, editor
Full-colour artwork and selected poetry from Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish sources in Middle Eastern countries.
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Thura's Diary: A Young Girl's Life in War-Torn Baghdad
- Thura Al-Windawi
In her diary, Thura records how what was once her typical teenaged life changes when bombs started falling on Baghdad in 2003. (Translated from Arabic.)
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