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• A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall

  Warga, Jasmine,

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  After a painting is stolen from a museum, Rami encounters a mysterious floating girl. He realizes she resembles the girl in that very stolen painting from the museum. Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery and teams up with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kareem Between

  Safadi, Shifa Saltagi,

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  As Kareem starts seventh grade, he is forced to navigate the social complexities he is faced with: football tryouts, his best friend moving away and, because of his Syrian background, he is expected to show the new Syrian kid around…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Farah Rocks New Beginnings

  Darraj, Susan Muaddi,

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  Feeling guilty over the house fire she might have started, Farah Hajjar channels her energy into starting a creative writing club at the Magnet Academy where she is a new sixth-grader. Includes writing prompts and glossaries.

• Thunderbird. Book One

  Nimr, Sonia,

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  The Thunderbird trilogy invites us along a time-traveling fantasy adventure! Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl, begins in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers to save the world. Aided by a djinn cat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughters of the Lamp

  Lewers, Nedda,

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  Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic. She likes having a plan, but the ones she had for her Summer are swept away when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding. Mysterious things start happening and her resistance…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria

  Jreije, George,

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  After twelve-year-old Lebanese-American Shad Hadid discovers he is descended from a long time of alchemists, he receives an invitation to the mysterious Alexandria Academy. There he discovers not everything is as it seems and shadowy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tagging Freedom

  Roumani, Rhonda,

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  Set in the early days of the Syrian Civil War, Kareem Haddad becomes inspired to secretly graffiti messages of freedom around Damascus. In the United States, his artistic but anxious cousin Samira joins the Spirit Squad. When Kareem is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Turtle of Oman

  a Novel

  Nye, Naomi Shihab

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  Aref Al-Amri, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, does not want to leave his home. He has his school, his friends and his grandfather, Siddi, here and he refuses to pack his suitcase. His parents will be attending graduate school in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Once There Was

  Monsef, Kiyash,

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  When Marjan was a little girl, her father told her fantastic stories of magical creatures. After her father is murdered, now fifteen-year-old Marjan discovers the creatures of those stories are real and her father was secretly a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Poppies

  Saleh, Haya,

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  Ever since their father passed away, Omar has tried his best to be the man of their family of Syrian refugees. While he waits in line for rations and longs for the books he had to leave behind, his brother Sufyan explores more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silverworld

  Abu-Jaber, Diana,

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  Desperate to help her ailing grandmother, Sami consults Sitti's spell book and falls into the magical Silverworld, where she must try to save the enchanted city.

• The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan

  Hussain, Salma (Young adult fiction writer),

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  During the start of the first Gulf War in 1991, Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Over the course of one year, Mona goes through so many life changes: she falls in love, speaks up to protect her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Streets Had a Name

  Abdel-Fattah, Randa

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  Thirteen-year-old Hayaat of Bethlehem faces check points, curfews, and the travel permit system designed to keep people on the West Bank when she attempts to go to her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem with her best friend.

• Salma Makes a Home

  Ramadan, Ahmad Danny,

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  It’s been one year, eleven months and six days, but now Salma’s dad is finally reuniting with their family in their new home. Salma is thrilled to see her baba again, but she is also anxious that he will miss Syria so much and leave them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Almost Sunset

  Algarmi, Wahab,

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  Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle school life.