Hanna Alkaf
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Children's Fantasy Books
Children's Staff Favorites
Chilling Chapter Books
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Human Who Doesn't Look or Live Like You
Children's Staff Favorites
Chilling Chapter Books
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book with a Human Who Doesn't Look or Live Like You
Description
Retells a Malaysian folk tale in which a lonely girl, Suraya, inherits from her grandmother a pelesit, a ghostly demon, who proves to be a good companion, bringing both danger and hope.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Once upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's waking up to the sound of frying samosas and simmering pistachio kheer, maybe it's the pleasure of putting on a new outfit for Eid prayers, or maybe it's the gift giving and holiday...