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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's...
Author
Publisher
Coleman Ranch Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
""California's Arab Americans" provides sketches of a cross-section of Arab American families in California both early and later arrivals. The first five chapters summarize geographical, sociological, and historical facts about the Arab world - providing an understanding about why and when immigration occurred. The remaining ten chapters containing the family histories correspond to the typical regional divisions of California, starting on the...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building.
Author
Publisher
Olive Branch Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"This powerful, personal account of more than 100 years of the history of Arab Americans combines the research of a historian with the vivid storytelling of a poet and novelist. Gregory Orfalea's search for insight into his family's past took him on a ten-year odyssey from Los Angeles to his family's ancestral village in Syria to nearly thirty Arab American communities across the US, where he has conducted over one hundred interviews." --
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of Arab immigration to the United States and Canada, from the 19th century to the present day, with information about famous Arab Americans, Islam, and Arab-American neighborhoods, as well as a discussion of life in the United States for Arab Americans after the September 11 terrorist attack.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Provides a brief history of the Arab world, explaining why some Arabs chose to move to the United States and the challenges they faced when they arrive, and describes what challenges still face immigrants today.
10) Here to stay
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.
11) New beginnings
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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 Near...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Muslim-American teen goes into denial mode about her role in an out-of-control party that occured during Ramadan, a situation that escalates until she incurs damage that is harder to repair, forcing her to come to terms with her true self. --Publisher
15) Man o' war
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of business in small-town Ohio. When a chance encounter with a happy, healthy queer person on the annual field trip lands River literally in the shark tank, they must admit the truth: they don't know who they are--only what they've been told to be. This sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Allie Abraham is a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-knit family. She's dating cute, popular, and sweet Wells Henderson-- whose father is Jack Henderson, America's most famous conservative shock jock. Allie hasn't told Wells that her family is Muslim. It's not a secret, it's just that her parents don't practice and raised her to keep her Islamic heritage to herself. As Allie witnesses ever-growing Islamophobia in her small town and...
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