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"Launching a propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman shares her harrowing experience of being wrongly accused of terrorism. Adama Bah grew up in East Harlem after immigrating from Conakry, Guinea, and was deeply connected to her community and the people who lived there. But as a thirteen-year-old after the events of September 11, 2001, she began experiencing discrimination and dehumanization as prejudice toward Muslim people grew....
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Sixteen-year-old Allie, aged seven when she knew her family was different and feared, struggles to claim her Muslim and Arabic heritage while finding her place as an American teenager.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL SHABAZZ
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TEEN NOVEL SHABAZZ
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While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
NOVEL JALALUDDIN
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NOVEL JALALUDDIN
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"Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid, who is just as smart and handsome as he...
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Not allowed to eat from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan and forbidden to date, fifteen-year-old Almira finds that temptation comes in many forms during the Muslim holy month, as she longs to feel like a typical American girl.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN BIOGRAPHY IFTIN
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY IFTIN
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Adapted from the adult memoir, this gripping story follows one boy's journey into young adulthood and offers an intimate account of modern immigration. Abdi Nor Iftin grew up amidst a blend of cultures, far from the United States. At home in Somalia, his mother entertained him with vivid folktales and bold stories detailing her rural, nomadic upbringing. As he grew older, he spent his days following his father, a basketball player, through the bustling...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL BHUIYAN
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TEEN NOVEL BHUIYAN
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Karina Ahmed's parents have a lot of rules, and for her it is worth it to follow those rules instead of her dreams. With her parents in Bangledesh for a month, she expects to relax those rules a bit, but when the guy she's tutoring says she's his girlfriend to cover up the fact that he's getting help with his schoolwork, that breaks a major rule in a major way that she's sure will end in disaster. A strict deadline -- twenty-eight days -- and payment...
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Year Eleven at an exclusive prep school in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, would be tough enough, but it is further complicated for Amal when she decides to wear the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, full-time as a badge of her faith--without losing her identity or sense of style.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL MAFI
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TEEN NOVEL MAFI
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In the wake of 9/11, Shadi, a child of Muslim immigrants, tries to navigate her crumbling world of death, heartbreak, and bigotry in silence, until finally everything changes.
11) Hollow fires
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Teen Lincoln Nominees
TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - Teen Lincoln Nominees
TEEN CD NOVEL AHMED
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TEEN CD NOVEL AHMED
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A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope, by New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed. Perfect for fans of Sadie and Dear Martin. Safiya Mirza dreams of becoming a journalist. And one thing she's learned as editor of her school newspaper is that a journalist's job is to find the facts and not let personal biases affect the story. But all...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL ELHILLO
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TEEN NOVEL ELHILLO
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"Nima doesn't feel understood. By her mother, who grew up far away in a different land. By her suburban town, which makes her feel too much like an outsider to fit in and not enough like an outsider to feel like that she belongs somewhere else. At least she has her childhood friend Haitham, with whom she can let her guard down and be herself. Until she doesn't. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life...
13) Huda F are you?
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Huda F books volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL FAHMY
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TEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL FAHMY
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Huda and her family just moved to Dearborn, Michigan, a small town with a big Muslim population. In her old town, Huda knew exactly who she was: She was the hijabi girl. But in Dearborn, everyone is the hijabi girl. Huda is lost in a sea of hijabis, and she can't rely on her hijab to define her anymore. She has to define herself. So she tries on a bunch of cliques, but she isn't a hijabi fashionista or a hijabi athlete or a hijabi gamer. She's not...
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"Portrait of two Muslim sisters, once closely bonded, but now on divergent paths as one embraces her religion and the other remains secular"--
15) I'm just me
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Nasreen and Mia are two very different girls. But they stand out at Arondale High. And kids make assumptions about the only Muslim and the new black girl--the only African American--in school. The school administrators are ignorant. And worse. The bullying escalates. Both at school and online. The girls come up with a plan to fight back. To regain some dignity. To turn the tables on the bullies.
16) Internment
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN PLAYAWAY AHMED
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TEEN PLAYAWAY AHMED
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"Rebellions are built on hope. It's been one year since the census landed seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her family on the registry. Five months since the attorney general argued that Korematsu v. United States established precedent for relocation of citizens during times of war. And one month since the president declared that "Muslims are a threat to America." And now, Layla and her parents are suddenly taken from their home and forced into an...
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL RISHI
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TEEN NOVEL RISHI
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After Kiran Noorani's mom died, Kiran vowed to keep her family-- dad and sister Amira-- together. When Amira announces that she's dating someone-- and might move across the country with him-- Kiran's world is turned upside down. Deen Malik is thrilled that his brother, Faisal, has found a great girlfriend. Three years ago Kiran and Deen dated in secret ... until Deen ghosted Kiran. Now they are face-to-face: Deem just wants his brother to be happy;...
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Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
19) Love from A to Z
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Love from (Ali) volume 1
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL ALI
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TEEN NOVEL ALI
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN CD NOVEL ALI
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TEEN CD NOVEL ALI
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Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
NOVEL AHMED
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NOVEL AHMED
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 2nd Floor - Kids & Teens
TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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TEEN NOVEL AHMED
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Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.