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Author
Publisher
Innovation Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Saddened by her classmates' and teacher's mispronunciations of her name, a girl is empowered by her discovery that names are like songs when she and her mom celebrate the musicality of African, Asian, Black-American, Latinx, and Middle Eastern names.
Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response, the girl's mother teaches her...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Your Name Is a Song and the bestselling illustrator of The Proudest Blue comes a story about a Muslim boy who receives a salat (prayer) rug on his seventh birthday and becomes empowered about his faith.
In this beautiful story of community, family, and acceptance, a boy named Muhammad receives a special salat rug on his seventh birthday. Seven is the age when Muslim children are encouraged...
In this beautiful story of community, family, and acceptance, a boy named Muhammad receives a special salat rug on his seventh birthday. Seven is the age when Muslim children are encouraged...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Assalamu Alaikum, Sister. Welcome.
Ameena feels invisible. Ever since she arrived at her school a few months ago, kids
look at her like she’s something strange. Is it because of the twists in her hair? Or
her brown skin?
Then, one day, there’s a new new kid in class. Ameena sees her. Sees her
brownness. Sees her hijab. Sees her in ways that the other kids do not.
Ameena wants to be her friend … but she doesn’t...
Ameena feels invisible. Ever since she arrived at her school a few months ago, kids
look at her like she’s something strange. Is it because of the twists in her hair? Or
her brown skin?
Then, one day, there’s a new new kid in class. Ameena sees her. Sees her
brownness. Sees her hijab. Sees her in ways that the other kids do not.
Ameena wants to be her friend … but she doesn’t...