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Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Description
Bilal and his father invite his friends to help make his favorite dish, daal, then all must wait patiently for it to be done.
2) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Children’s New Books: April 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Read in Full Bloom: 1st - 3rd Grade
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Read in Full Bloom: 1st - 3rd Grade
Description
When Marya's third-grade class participates in taking care of the school's new garden, Marya wants to be the student leader in charge, but every time she tries to prove she has what it takes to be a leader things get messy.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'I am an American patriot not because I was born here but because I was not. I embraced American freedoms, raised my children to cherish and revere them, and lost a son who swore an oath to defend them, because I come from a place where they do not exist.' In fewer than three hundred words, Muslim American Gold Star father Khizr Khan electrified viewers around the world when he took the stage at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. And when he...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: February 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in Pakistan, Sonia Laghari and eight fellow members of a symposium on peace are being held captive by armed terrorists. Sonia, a deeply religious woman as well as a Jungian psychologist, has become the de facto leader of the kidnapped group, while her son Theo, an ex-Delta soldier, uses his military connections to find and free the victims.
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film portrays aspects of an Afghan refugee's life - his living conditions in Peshawar and his longing to return to Herat. It is also about Amir's life as a professional musician and his relationships with other musicians in Peshawar.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. In the town of Marshall sits the Federal courthouse of the Eastern District of Texas, a place revered by patent lawyers for its speedy jury trials and massive punitive payouts. Marshall is flooded with patent lawyers, all of whom find work being the local voice for the big-city legal teams that need to sway...
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 2
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: January 2023 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
After Zara's bike goes missing, her parents insist on her earning money to pay for it, so she and her friend Naomi turn their red wagon into The Treasure Wagon and try and sell some old knickknacks found in her family's basement.
14) Nadia's hands
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nadia is the flower girl at her aunt's wedding and, as part of the Pakistani tradition, has her hands decorated with a long-lasting henna dye, but Nadia worries about what the kids at school will say about it on Monday.
15) On point
Author
Series
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Zayd is so excited to finally be on the Gold Team in basketball but when the team starts struggling and his best friend quits to play football he must step up for his team"--
16) Power forward
Author
Series
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fourth-grader Zayd yearns to play basketball on the Gold Team, but when he skips orchestra rehearsal to practice, his parents forbid anything basketball-related, and tryouts are coming soon.
17) Amina's song
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 2
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.--
18) Sway with me
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--
20) Amina's voice
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school. After her local mosque if vandalized, she is devastated. Her friend Soojin is talking about changing her name. Does Amina need to become more "American" and hide who she really is?
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