muslims

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All American Yemeni girls

being Muslim in a public school
2005

Saving Sunshine

Muslim Pakistani American twins Zara and Zeeshan Aziz are as different as can be and fight constantly. When they can't stop bickering on their family trip to Key West, Florida, their parents confiscate their phones and force them to spend time with each other without any technology. While kayaking, Zara and Zeeshan come across a sick loggerhead turtle, and the twins must put aside their differences and join forces to save her.

Huda F cares?

In this sequel to the graphic novel "Huda F Are You?," Egyptian American Huda Fahmy and her family take a summer vacation to Disney World. They drive twenty-four hours from Dearborn, Michigan, where they are a part of a large Muslim community, and finally arrive at the theme park. However, here Huda feels the stares of others as she prays in public; she witnesses revealing clothing, alcohol, and public displays of affection; and she fends off harassment and unwanted advances. However, the experience also teaches Huda much about herself and her family.

Fatima Tate takes the cake

2023
Aspiring baker seventeen-year-old Fatima navigates the challenges of parental and communal expectations in her strict Muslim community while staying true to her dreams.

A guide to the dark

2023
Stranded at the Wildwood Motel while on their spring break road trip, Mira and Layla discover eight people died in their room and set out to find the connection between the deaths and the unexplainable things that keep happening inside Room 9.

Grounded

a novel
2023
Told in alternating points of view, at Hurston Airport, four unlikely kids' lives are changed forever when their flight is grounded by weather following a Muslim convention.

I will greet the sun again

a novel /(Realistic Fiction)
2023
"The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy--shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to survive in the United States. To make his mother proud, he tries to do well in school and help around the apartment, but he worries he is disappointing her. On Friday nights K dutifully attends prayers at the Mosque with his remote and unknowable Baba, whose love and violence will distort K's understanding of what it means to be a man"--Provided by publisher.

Zara's rules for living your best life

2023
Eleven-year-old Zara is less than thrilled to be spending spring break with her brother and grandparents, but she is determined to have fun and show her retired grandfather how to start living his best life.

When a brown girl flees

2023
Eighteen-year-old Pakistani American Zahra makes an impulsive decision to run away from home and move to New York in an attempt to heal, learn to love herself, and renew her faith in family while navigating mental health and religious guilt.

Behind You is the Sea

2024
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore?from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich?lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion.

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