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List: Growing Up Muslim
I Say As-Salamu 'Alaykum
"Nabil and Noura are going to the park. Along the way Nabil greets the gardener and park ranger. Now noura wants to say "As-Salamu "Alaykum!'"
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Deep in the Sahara
Also available as an ebook on Overdrive/Libby. In Mauritania, West Africa, an Arab girl who wants to wear a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother and older sister, learns that the garment represents beauty, mystery, tradition, belonging, and faith.
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Common threads: Adam's day at the market / by Huda Essa ; illustrated by Mercé Tous.
Also available as an ebook on Hoopla. When young Adam is separated from his parents in a bustling market, he finds many diverse people in similar clothing who kindly help him search for them.
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Yo Soy Muslim : A Father's Letter to his Daughter
A lyrical celebration of multiculturalism as a parent shares with a child the value of their heritage and why it should be a source of pride, even when others disagree.
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Salam Alaikum
An illustrated song celebrating life and encouraging readers to spread peace on earth. Salam Alaikum or Assalamu Alaikum, means "Peace be upon you." It is the greeting that Muslims around the world use to say "hello" and "good-bye." International music sensation Harris J has taken that greeting and created a call to action. Using the lyrics to the hit song of the same name, and accompanied by heartwarming illustrations that depict the power of paying it forward, this sweet and charming picture book celebrates kindness and community.
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The Arabic Quilt : An Immigrant Story
Also available as an eaudiobook and movie on Hoopla. The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
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Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets : A Muslim Book of Shapes
Also available as an ebook on RBdigital. In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl guides the reader through the traditions and shapes of Islam.
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Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns : A Muslim Book of Colors
Also available as an ebook on RBdigital and Hoopla. In simple rhyming text a young Muslim girl and her family guide the reader through the traditions and colors of Islam.
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Like the Moon Loves the Sky
Also available as an ebook on Hoopla. Illustrations and prose inspired by the Quran celebrate a mother's love and hopes for her child.
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Under my Hijab
As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.
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Saffron Ice Cream
Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she used to eat.
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The Proudest Blue : A Story of Hijab and Family
Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
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Mommy's Khimar
A young Muslim girl puts on a head scarf and not only feels closer to her mother, she also imagines herself as a queen, the sun, a superhero, and more.
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ḤijÄb-i charkhÄn = The Swirling Hijaab
Enter the imaginary world of a little girl playing with her mother's hijaab. With a swirl of the hijaab, she is at once a brave warrior queen, an adventurous nomad in the desert, a beautiful bride, or inside a Bedouin tent.
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Dalgalanan yemeni = The Swirling Hijaab
Enter the imaginary world of a little girl playing with her mother's hijaab. With a swirl of the hijaab, she is at once a brave warrior queen, an adventurous nomad in the desert, a beautiful bride, or inside a Bedouin tent.
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