Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
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A Thousand Questions
$9.99 Read moreSet against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s tender and honest middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval with kind hearts, big
- Author: Faruqi, Saadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0062943219
- Language: English
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The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls: The Lion’s Roar
$6.99 Add to cartIn the sixth installment of the time-traveling chapter book series, the Hidden Scrolls take siblings Peter and Mary back to ancient Babylon, where Daniel is about to get thrown into the lions’ den.
The… [more below]- Series: Secret of the Hidden Scrolls #6
- Author: Thomas, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0824957059
- Language: English
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La Forma de Un Hogar: (The Shape of Home Spanish Edition)
$16.99 Read moreEs el primer d?a de clases de Rashin en Estados Unidos! Todo tiene diferentes formas de lo que est? acostumbrada, desde las comidas en su desayuno hasta las letras en sus libros Y las familias de sus… [more below]
- Author: Kheiriyeh, Rashin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1646142470
- Language: Spanish
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Wishing Upon the Same Stars
$7.99 Add to cartThis powerful and poignant coming-of-age middle grade debut novel follows an Arab American girl named Yasmeen as she moves to San Antonio with her family and navigates finding friendship–and herself.
- Author: Feldman, Jacquetta Nammar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063034395
- Language: English
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Nour’s Secret Library
$9.99 Read moreForced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author’s own life experience and ins… [more below]
- Author: Tarnowska, Wafa’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1646862929
- Language: English
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The Library Bus
$12.95 Add to cartThe Middle East Book Award winner and Governor General’s
Literary Award finalist inspired by Kabul, Afghanistan’s first library bus is
now in paperback!It is still
dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the lib… [more below]- Author: Rahman, Bahram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1772782653
- Language: English
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The Door in the Dragon’s Throat: Volume 1
$6.99 Add to cartA mystery as old as the desert sands…
When teenagers Jay and Lila Cooper and their archaeologist father travel to Nepur, an uninviting land of deserts and danger, they must search to uncover the trut
- Series: Cooper Kids Adventure #1
- Author: Peretti, Frank E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 14 2004
- ISBN10: 1581346182
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Book of Treasures: Ancient Egypt
$18.99 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book is full of ancient secrets, glittering gold, priceless treasures, and Egyptian stories from more than 3,000 years ago. Stunning artworks and intriguing facts combine … [more below]
- Series: Magnificent Book of
- Author: Steele, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1681885581
- Language: English
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Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
$19.99 Add to cart“Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country’s same anger and grief is… [more below]
- Author: Faruqi, Saadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0062943251
- Language: English
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Quien Es Malala Yousafzai?
$12.95 Add to cartMalala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner … [more below]
- Series: Quien Fue? / Who Was?
- Author: Brown, Dinah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1631134183
- Language: Spanish
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Maryam’s Magic: The Story of Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Althea Gibson author Megan Reid and rising star artist Aaliya Jaleel, illustrator of Under My Hijab, comes the first picture book about trailblazing mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first wo
- Author: Reid, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0062915967
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Ahmad Shah: English-Pashto Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) Some 250 years ago, the Great King Ahmad Shah Durrani ruled Afghanistan and, from there, a magnificent empire extending from eastern Iran to northern India, and from
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Bazger Salam, Palwasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1944493646
- Language: English
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13th Street #6: Fight with the Freeze-Ray Fowls
$8.99 Add to cartA silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book
Cousins Malia, D
- Series: Harperchapters #6
- Author: Bowles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009625
- Language: English
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Saffron Ice Cream
$18.99 Add to cartA joyous celebration of a girl’s first family outing in a new country
“With her colorful, exuberant folk-art illustrations and upbeat, friendly tone, Rashin makes a daunting cross-cultural leap seem as… [more below]
- Author: Kheiriyeh, Rashin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1338150529
- Language: English
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Anisa’s International Day
$16.99 Read moreFrom the award-winning author of Unsettled, meet Anisa, the adorable Pakistani American heroine of this irresistible younger middle grade novel about a girl who introduces her class to the art of mehn
- Author: Faruqi, Reem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063206234
- Language: English
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We’re Sailing Down the Nile: A Journey Through Egypt
$9.99 Read moreSet sail along the mighty Nile River to experience the wonders of Egypt. The lilting, rhyming story text is followed by eleven pages full of educational information about ancient Egypt, gods and godde… [more below]
- Author: Krebs, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1846861942
- Language: English
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The Boy Without a Name: English-Pashto Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) On the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who tells them, “This is a very, very important boy, and I’m going to give him something marvelous o
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1944493549
- Language: English
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Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Mythology for Kids
$14.99 Add to cartUnearth the mythology of ancient Egypt-stories of gods and goddesses for kids 8 to 12
From the rising of the morning sun to the summer flooding of the Nile River, the ancient Egyptians believed powerfu
- Author: Moroney, Morgan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 164611423X
- Language: English
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The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
$8.99 Read moreAlia Muhammad Baker’s library in Basra, Iraq, has been a meeting place for those who love books for the past fourteen years. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library–along with the thirty th… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0358141834
- Language: English
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Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls’ Rights
$6.99 Add to cartA chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls’ education.
Malala’s powerful memoir of risking her life for the right to- Author: Yousafzai, Malala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0316527157
- Language: English
