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Arab American Heritage April 2025 |
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Zamzam
by Karen Leggett Abouraya
Zamzam divides his time between his grandparents' homes in New York City (United States) and Alexandria, Egypt. While the two places are different in terms of sights, sounds, and flavors, they share much in common. But the most important thing they share is family love.
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Sundays Are for Feasts
by Leila Boukarim
This summer Sunday, when Yasmine's family comes for lunch, Yasmine is making the hummus, but it's harder to make than she expects, in a story about making your own traditions that includes a glossary of Arabic terms and a hummus recipe.
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Saliman and the Memory Stone
by Erica Lyons
Inspired by a true story, this picture book follows young Saliman, who though unable to bring some of his things along on their journey by foot to Jerusalem in 1881, holds tight to his memory stone, a piece of his house, as a way to keep Yemen in his heart.
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Banana Dream
by Hasan Namir
Eleven-year-old Iraqi, Mooz, yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare.
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The Gift of Eid
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Yasmine doesn't have enough money to buy Mama's Eid gift and then comes up with an idea, in a story about how the true Eid joy comes from being together, set in the Souk al-Hamidiyah and the Great Mosque of Damascus.
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This Is Not a Cholent
by Sarah Sassoon
Amira is nervous about how different her and her Nona's Iraqi cholent is from the other entries in the "Best Cholent Competition Down Under," but gains confidence once the judges taste it.
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Hilwa's Gifts
by Safa Suleiman
A heartwarming picture-book debut brings a tradition many thousands of years old—harvesting and pressing olives into oil—vividly to life, showing how customs unite us across time and space.
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Easy Nonfiction & Juvenile Biography
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Umm Kulthum: The Star of the East
by Rhonda Roumani
Umm Kulthum was an iconic Arab singer whose powerful voice captivated the region for over five decades. Admired by the likes of Maria Callas, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, and Bono, she became a symbol of cultural pride. Born to a poor village sheikh in Egypt, she defied social norms of her time, convincing her parents to send her to school to learn to read and recite the Qur'an. Disguised as a boy, she toured the countryside with her father, singing at religious events until her voice could no longer be hidden, earning her early fame. Determined to succeed, Umm Kulthum moved to Cairo, where she overcame initial ridicule to become a celebrated artist. She collaborated with Egypt's top poets and musicians, mastering her craft and mesmerizing audiences with her long, soulful performances. Her perfect pronunciation and deep connection to the Arabic language endeared her to millions, earning her titles like "The Lady," "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid," "The Mother of Arabs," and "The Star of the East."
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Juvenile Fiction & JGRAPHIC
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A Pocketful of Stars
by Aisha Bushby
When her mother falls into a coma, Safiya experiences her mother's memories of her childhood in Kuwait, which puts her on a path to accepting loss and embracing who she is—someone not so different from her mother after all.
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Fury of the Dragon Goddess
by Sarwat Chadda
Using the mythic tablet of destinies to bring his brother back from the dead, Sikander Aziz sets in motion a chain of events that leads to the resurrection of Tiamat, the great chaos dragon and mother of all monsters. Sequel to City of the Plague God
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Resist: A Story of D-Day
by Alan Gratz
Samira Zidane lives in Nazi-occupied France during World War II where she and her mother crack codes to help sabotage the Nazis' plans, and when her mother is captured, Samira must embark on a daring rescue mission on D-Day.
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Leila and the Blue Fox
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
While on a journey across the sea to track the migration of an arctic fox, twelve-year-old Leila rediscovers herself and the mother she thought she had lost
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Huda Was Here
by H. Hayek
Huda hatches a bold plan to help her dad get a job - which lands her and her brother in all kinds of trouble. A delightful and hilarious story from a CBCA award-winning author, about a lion-hearted girl who just wants the best for her family.
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Thunderbird: Book One
by Sonia Nimr
The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. Aided by a djinn cat and girls who look identical to Noor and who each have one of the bird's powers, in this initial volume Noor begins her journey through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact.
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The Turtle of Michigan: A Novel by Naomi Shihab NyeIn this highly anticipated stand-alone companion to The Turtle of Oman, Aref travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is reunited with his father and tries to adjust to his new life.
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Salma Writes a Book
by Ahmad Danny Ramadan
Salma is going to be a big sister! She's determined to be the best sister ever, so she sets out to write the ultimate guidebook to siblinghood. But the more Salma learns about siblings, the more confused she gets, especially since her mama is fighting with her own brother, Khalou Dawood, about who he loves. Can Salma figure out what it means to be a good sister before the baby arrives?
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Wild Poppies
by Haya Saleh
Trying to be the man of his Syrian refugee family after his father dies, bookish Oscar must rescue his brother Sufyan when he gets in too deep with an intense group of fighters and find courage in ways he had never dared to before.
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A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga
When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a painting stolen from the museum, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery and teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for the clues all around them.
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Mr. Muffins: Defender of the Stars
by Ben Kahn
Eleven-year-old Reuben Mahmud just wants a break. When he takes his pet corgi, Mr. Muffins, to the park, he expects to get just that--a break. But instead, he gets an alien invasion smack dab in the middle of his neighborhood! Oh! And apparently Mr. Muffins is the chosen one destined to save the galaxy? This should be interesting . . . Dragged into the middle of an epic space war by an intergalactic soldier named Cassara, Reuben learns that the fate of the entire galaxy rests in Mr. Muffins's adorable corgi paws. But it's going to take a lot more than tail wagging and butt waddling to end this war!
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