Theme: Muslims

Meat Eating Vegetarian

By Book Importer | Published: May 31, 2011

Tasneem is so happy at her new school and with her new friends, Lisa and Yvonne. Suddenly her friends start avoiding her and calling her names. What could possibly have happened and what has it to do with vegetarian dinners and wearing a scarf?

Descriptors: Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, United States of America » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Day Of The Pelican

By Book Importer | Published: March 30, 2010

Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and [...]

Descriptors: Albania, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

From Somalia with Love

By Book Importer | Published: January 11, 2010

Safia Dirie is a teenage girl living in East London with her mother, Hoyo, and two older brothers, Ahmed and Abdullahi. Though she was born in Somalia, she doesn’t remember much of  it — Safia’s a London girl, through and through. But now, after 12 long years, her father, Abo, has returned to the family [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, Somalia » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Kampung Boy

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 7, 2007

Relates the life experiences, from birth to beginning boarding school, of a boy growing up on a rubber plantation in rural Malaysia.

Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Malaysia, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed

In The Name Of God

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: July 6, 2007

Determined to follow the laws set down in the Qur’an, seventeen-year-old Nadia becomes involved in a violent revolutionary movement aimed at supporting Muslim rule in Syria and opposing the Western politics and materialism that increasingly affect her family.

Descriptors: Asia, Realistic Fiction, Syrian Arab Republic, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , » Comments closed