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21) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
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
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A dangerous criminal has escaped from prison and is headed in the direction of New Brighton, where teenager Hamid Abdi is babysitting his twin cousins, but he is not worried until the twins tell him that a man dressed as a clown has been coming into their bedroom--and when the electricity goes out Hamid is pulled into their living nightmare.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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 shed 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."--book jacket.
26) The amateur spy
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Description
Former aid worker Freeman Lockhart is blackmailed into spying on his former Jordanian friend and co-worker Omar al-Baroody in order to prevent an act of terrorism against Washington's highest power brokers.
27) Arab Americans
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Examines the reasons Arab people come to the United States, how well they fit into American society, and the ways in which they've contributed to the cultural richness of modern America.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Kanzi...has come to feel welcome in her American school--that is, until an entire shelf of books about immigrant kids and kids of color suddenly disappears from the school library. Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together--with their teacher's help--they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds...
29) Saving sky
Author
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Description
From the publisher. The country is at war, terrorists strike at random, widespread rationing is in effect, and the power grid is down. But thirteen-year-old Sky Brightman is remarkably untouched by it all. She lives off the grid on sixty acres of rural New Mexico ranch land with chores to do and horses to ride and no television or internet to bring disturbing news into her family's adobe house. Sky's schoolmates think she's a little weird. Then a...
31) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen format.
Description
Jasira, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl, moves to suburban Houston to live with her extremely strict father.
32) Bilal's bread
Author
Publisher
Alyson Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
First edition
Description
"Bilal Abu has a lot to say, but he's scared to open his mouth. And who could blame him? A 16-year-old Iraqi refugee, he has to contend with his immigrant family's never-ending drama and his fanatical older brother's sexual abuse. And then there's life in his sketchy neighborhood in Kansas City, Missouri, where all the non-Muslim kids think he's a terrorist. When Bilal falls in love with the son of his community's religious leader, things get better...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Before Kahlil Gibran ever put his pen to the page to eventually become the world's third best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, a child immigrant from Lebanon who had a secret hope. That hope sprung from his experiences in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims crashed like two strong headwinds, and in Boston, where the wealthy crashed with the poor. His secret hope: to connect all people from around the world, bringing them together...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When the plans for the Bat-Wing, a historical aircraft, disappear from the Capitol City Air and Space Museum, eleven-year-old Amal Farah's father is blamed, and it is up to the four young friends to solve the mystery and save her father's job.
Author
Series
Farah rocks volume 3
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
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
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Appears on list
Description
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.
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