BOOKS FOR YOUTH
re Middle East, Islam, Muslim:
(as recommended from members of CHILDLIT listserv community)
March 2010
*=in my personal collection
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Ten Things I Hate About Me |
Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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*Does My Head Look Big in This? |
Randa Abdel-Fattah |
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Wanting More |
Rukhsana Khan |
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Roses in My Carpet (The) |
Rukhsana Khan |
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Dahling, If You Luv Me Would You Please, Please Smile |
Rukhsana Khan |
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Muslim Child |
Rukhsana Khan |
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King of the Skies |
Rukhsana Khan |
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Silly Chicken |
Rukhsana Khan |
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White Nights of Ramadan (The) |
Maha Addasi |
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Loving Letters: An Islamic Alphabet |
Riad Mourallah |
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Ramadan |
Suhaib Hamid Ghazi and Omar Rayyan |
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Journey through Islamic Arts |
Na’ima biint Robert |
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Coming to America: A Muslim Family’s Story |
Bernard Wolf |
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Vanishing Cultures: Sahara |
Jan Reynolds |
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Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp (coming out 2010) |
Trish Marx |
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Oranges in No Man’s Land |
Elizabeth Laird |
Lebanon during the civil war |
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Ramadan Moon |
Naima B. Robert |
Picture book about Muslims around the world |
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Day of Ahmed’s Secret (The) |
Florence Parry Heide |
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Crusade |
Elizabeth Laird |
Historical novel about Christian and Muslim boy on opposite sides of the Holy Land during the Crusades |
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*Librarian of Basra (The) |
Jeanette Winter |
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| *Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq | Mark Alan Stamaty | |
| *Haveli | Suzanne Fisher Staples | |
| *Four Feet, Two Sandals | Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed | |
| *Full Circle | Diane Kozak | |
| *Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind | Suzanne Fisher Staples | |
| *To Bounce or Not to Bounce | Naif Abdulrahman Al-Mutawa | |
| *Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye | |
| *Shadow Spinner | Susan Fletcher | |
| *Magid Fasts for Ramadan | Mary Matthews | |
| *One Green Apple | Eve Bunting | |
| *Ali: Child of the Desert | Jonathan London | |
| *My Name Is Bilal | Asma Mobin-Uddin | |
| Oranges in No Man's Land | Elizabeth Laird | Lebanon during civil war |
| Ramadan Moon | Naima B. Robert | |
| Crusade | Elizabeth Laird | Christian and Muslim boy on opposite sides in Holy Land during Crusades |