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1) Othello
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Othello, a noble Moor, has a lieutenant, Iago, who is insanely jealous of Othello's success and higher rank. At every turn Iago plots to exploit Othello, undermine his trust in his wife, and deceive him into an all-consuming jealousy. Iago's successful conniving results in Othello smothering his wife. The treachery is revealed only after the murder. Othello wounds Iago in a vengeful fight, then kills himself.
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Historical Fiction for Middle Grades (SCPL-YS)
Juvenile Historical Fiction
Living in the 20th Century
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Juvenile Historical Fiction
Living in the 20th Century
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Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
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2023 Monarch Award Nominees
Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
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Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
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Amira is excited because tomorrow is Eid with special clothes, treats, gifts, and a morning party at her mosque; but then she realizes that she is going to miss class picture day at school, something she was also looking forward to--so Amira has to figure out a way to be in two places at once.
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Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
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Arab American Heritage Month (kids)
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
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Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
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Planet Omar volume 1
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"Imaginative Omar goes through the ups and downs of starting a new school and making new friends with the help of his wonderful (and silly) Muslim family"--
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
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2021 Summer Top Picks for High Schoolers
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
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It's 2002, a year after 9/11. It's an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments--even the physical violence--she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. So she's built up protective walls and refuses...
10) Code of honor
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When Iranian-American Kamran Smith learns that his big brother, Darius, has been labelled a terrorist, he sets out to piece together the codes and clues that will save his brother's life and his country from a deadly terrorist attack.
12) Internment
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"A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during...
13) Twenty
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 17
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English
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A nightmarish shooting at their daughter's school finds Jack Swyteck and his law-enforcement officer wife, Andie, investigating a chief suspect's alleged ties to Al Qaeda amid growing anti-Muslim fervor.
After a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualties at Riverside Day School, the tragedy prompts mass hysteria-- and dangerous speculation. The police haven't identified the shooter, but a handgun found on the school grounds is registered to...
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AANHPI 2023 - Teens
Diversity in YA Fiction
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month- Youth
Diversity in YA Fiction
Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Asian Pacific American Heritage Month- Youth
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Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
15) All we have left
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National Day of Service and Remembrance - Teen
OBD Hinsdale Central High School Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
OBD Hinsdale Central High School Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
OBD September 11th - YOUTH
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Now: Sixteen-year-old Jesse is used to living with the echoes of the past. Her older brother died in the September 11th attacks, and her dad has filled their home with anger and grief. When Jesse gets caught up with the wrong crowd, one momentary hate-fueled decision turns her life upside down. The only way to make amends is to face the past, starting Jesse on a journey that will reveal the truth about how her brother died. Then: In 2001, sixteen-year-old...
16) Love from A to Z
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Love from (Ali) volume 1
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Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
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Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
OBD Ramadan & Eid - YOUTH
Ramadan Reads- Youth
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
OBD Ramadan & Eid - YOUTH
Ramadan Reads- Youth
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In simple rhyming text, a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam.
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Muslim American Heritage Month (teens)
OBD Ramadan & Eid - YOUTH
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
T - Valentine's Day - Fiction
OBD Ramadan & Eid - YOUTH
OBD YA Romance - YOUTH
T - Valentine's Day - Fiction
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Jamie Goldberg, who chokes when speaking to strangers, and Maya Rehrman, who is having the worst Ramadan ever, are paired to knock on doors and ask for votes for the local state senate candidate.
19) Amina's song
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Arab American Heritage Month
Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
Muslim Faith & Culture - picture books and more for kids
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Muslim American Heritage Month (kids)
Muslim Faith & Culture - picture books and more for kids
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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.--
20) Meet Yasmin!
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Arab American Heritage Month
Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
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Arab American Heritage Month Kids 2023
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (Youth)
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Description
In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.