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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book with a Red Cover
Nutmeg Book Award Elementary Nominees 2024
Nutmeg Book Award Elementary Nominees 2024
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Abdul loves telling stories but thinks his messy handwriting and spelling mistakes will keep him from becoming an author, until Mr. Muhammad visits and encourages him to persist.
2) X: a novel
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2015.
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English
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Follows the childhood of the civil rights leader to his imprisonment at age twenty, where he found the faith that would lead him to his path towards activism and justice.
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English
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"Nimra Sharif has spent her whole life in Islamic school, but now it's time to go to "real school." Unfortunately...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...Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to join the school's popular 8th grade boy band, Barakah Beats. The only problem is...she knows her parents would be disappointed if they found...
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Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Children's Historical Fiction
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Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Children's Historical Fiction
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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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"A new 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--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"-- Provided by publisher.
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2020.
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English
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2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book with a Red Cover
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Funny Children's Books
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Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Funny Children's Books
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Code of honor
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English
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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.
17) Amina's song
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English
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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.
19) Ramadan kareem
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[2024]
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English
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"Experience the sacred traditions of Ramadan, the Islamic month of mercy and blessings, with children and families from across the globe. From waking up early for suhoor and fasting from dawn to dusk to praying and preparing an iftar meal to be shared, Ramadan is a time of increased spirituality, gratitude, charity, and empathy for all"-- Provided by publisher.
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