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Amina's voice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--
3) Golden girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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When her father is accused of a crime he didn't commit, seventh grader Aafiyah, a Pakastani American girl who has a habit of "borrowing" glittery things, decides to use her bad habit to reunite her family.
7) Red shoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Malika loves her new red shoes and wears them everywhere, but eventually she outgrows them, and her grandmother takes them to a second-hand shop--where they will become a special present for Amina (who fasted half the month of Ramadan) in Africa, who will enjoy her special red shoes every bit as much as Malika did.
11) Without refuge
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.
13) Amina's song
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Amina's voice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men.
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Sadiq volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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When Sadiq and his classmates host a festival celebrating their own cultures, they find a way to make sure everyone in their class has traditions to share.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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With breathtaking illustrations and informative text, Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns magnificently captures the world of Islam, celebrating its beauty and traditions for even the youngest readers. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, this entrancing volume is equally at home in the classroom as it is being read to a child on a parent's lap.
19) Borderline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Despite the strained relationship between them, teenaged Sami Sabiri risks his life to uncover the truth when his father is implicated in a terrorist plot.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.