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1) Amal unbound
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Language
English
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Best Books of 2022
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Summer Reading 2023: 2nd To 3rd Grade
Best Children's Books 2022
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Summer Reading 2023: 2nd To 3rd Grade
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With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.
4) All my rage
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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AAPI Month
Books to Read After Watching Barbie
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
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Books to Read After Watching Barbie
Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
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A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
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Language
English
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When Bilal's family suddenly moves to America, his father stays in Pakistan, and Bilal embraces baseball, an unexpected friend, and a new language. But this new way of life does not feel so special without Baba--will he ever get to America to see Bilal pitch a game?
9) Golden girl
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Language
English
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Books by and About Arab American People
New Children's Books July 2022
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book in Verse or a Book of Poetry
New Children's Books July 2022
Summer Reading Challenge: Read a Book in Verse or a Book of Poetry
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakistani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
10) Unsettled
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Language
English
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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Language
English
Description
"Marya loves fall. Every year, her family goes to the town's fall festival and picks out the best pumpkin. But this year, after she sees her frenemy Alexa winning a big, cool pumpkin-shaped trophy, Marya knows she's got to win a trophy for something. It just so happens that her school is going to hold its own fall festival, with games and food and even a hayride. All the ticket sales will go to an animal shelter, and the person who sells the most...
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English
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Ten-year-old (nearly eleven) Zara's nickname is "Queen of the Neighborhood" because she organizes the other children (even the older ones), sets the rules, and generally makes sure everyone has fun; but now another ten-year-old, Naomi, has moved in across the street and she has her own ideas about fun games, and suddenly the other kids (even Zara's younger brother Zayd) are listening to Naomi--if she is going to retain her influence Zara needs to...
14) Tomb of Sand
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Language
English
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"An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention - including striking up a friendship with a hijra (trans) woman - confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more 'modern' of the two. At the older woman's insistence they travel back to Pakistan, simultaneously confronting the unresolved trauma...
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