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10 best books like Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. (Medeia Sharif): This Thing Called the Future, OyMG, Happy Birthday Hamster, Like Mandarin, When the Stars Go Blue, The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid, Illegal, What Can(t) Wait, Exclusively Chloe, What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay

This Thing Called the Future
AuthorJ.L. Powers
ISBN1933693959
Khosi lives with her beloved grandmother Gogo, her little sister Zi, and her weekend mother in a matchbox house on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. In that shantytown, it seems like somebody is dying all the time. Billboards everywhere warn of the disease of the day. Her Gogo goes to...
OyMG
AuthorAmy Fellner Dominy
Jewish girl. Christian camp. Holy moly.

Ellie Taylor loves nothing better than a good argument. So when she gets accepted to the Christian Society Speech and Performing Arts summer camp, she's sure that if she wins the final tournament, it'll be her ticket to a scholarship to the best speech...
Happy Birthday Hamster
AuthorCynthia Lord
ISBN0545255228
Hamster and Dog are back to celebrate Hamster's birthday!

Pink cake, blue cake, chocolate through-and-through cake.
Short cake, tall cake, cannot-eat-it-all cake.
WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling illustrator...
Like Mandarin
AuthorKirsten Hubbard
ISBN0385739354
It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give...
When the Stars Go Blue
AuthorBarbara Caridad Ferrer
ISBN0312650043
Winner of an International Latino Book Award

A dancer driven to succeed.

A musical prodigy attempting to escape his past.

The summer they share.

And the moment it all goes wrong.

Dance is Soledad Reyes's life. About to graduate from Miami's Biscayne High...
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
AuthorJeanette Winter
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017
Parents’ Choice Recommended

Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect’s life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter.

Zaha Hadid grew up...
Illegal
AuthorBettina Restrepo
ISBN0061953423
A promise.
Quinceañera.
A promise that we would be together on my fifteenth birthday . . .

Instead, Nora is on a desperate journey far away from home. When her father leaves their beloved Mexico in search of work, Nora stays behind. She fights to make sense of her loss while living in...
What Can(t) Wait
AuthorAshley Hope Pérez
ISBN0761361553
Marissa has smarts and plenty of promise, but she's marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college. When her home life becomes unbearable, Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere--and suddenly neither...
Exclusively Chloe
AuthorJon Yang
ISBN0142412260
Chloe-Grace can't help it—she's spectacular. How could she not be with celebrity parents who have been the queen and king of Hollywood for years? And Chloe is a celebrity all unto herself as well— she's the first celebrity-adopted kid in Hollywood. But now Chloe's sixteen, and she is tired of every...
What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay
AuthorAmanda Cockrell
The Boston Globe named What We Keep is not Always What Will Stay a 2011 Best Book for Children The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books named What We Keep is not Always What Will Stay to their 2011 Blue Ribbons list.

Angie never used to think much about God--until things started getting strange....
Boy vs. Girl
AuthorNa'ima B. Robert
ISBN1847801501
Farhana and Faraz are twins, born 6 minutes apart. Both are in turmoil as they approach the holy time of Ramadan. Farhana has to decide whether her faith is strong enough for her to wear the hijab at school and whether she can give up her relationship with handsome Malik. Faraz has fallen in with a street...
The Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story
AuthorHena Khan
ISBN0811860620
A gentle, prettily-illustrated description of a family's month-long celebration of Ramadan. Most of the description relates to practice -- what is eaten, when various events fall -- rather than the historical or religious meaning, which I would have liked to see a bit more of. I assume the intended...
Elizabeth Rex
AuthorTimothy Findley
ISBN1553310047
Based on the original stage production at the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Martha Henry. In this daring and original production of Timothy Findley's Governor-General Award winning play, William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I, are brought together in a remarkable...
Bobby the Brave
AuthorLisa Yee
ISBN0545055946
From Lisa Yee and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, a hilarious sequel to Bobby vs. Girls (Accidentally).

Bobby fights his fears -- of stage fright, disconnection from his dad, and the evil neighbor cat with twenty-seven toes -- in this hilarious sequel to BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY).



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Muhammad
AuthorDemi
ISBN0689852649
Muhammad
is
the messenger of Islam.

Born in Mecca in the year 570, Muhammad grew into a sensitive and thoughtful man who believed deeply in the worship of one true god.
In his fortieth year, Muhammad experienced a revelation from the angel Gabriel that he, Muhammad, was the messenger...
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
AuthorPeggy Gifford
ISBN0375945520
Here's the second book in the hilarious Moxy Maxwell series, which includes Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart little and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Practicing the Piano. It isn't as though Moxy isn’t grateful for her Christmas presents. She is. She’s just not thrilled that she has to write a thank-you...
Mallory in the Spotlight
AuthorLaurie B. Friedman
ISBN0822588846
The world is a stage for Mallory McDonald! When Mallory tries out for a part in the school play and gets the lead, she is super excited. But not everyone shares her enthusiasm, especially her best friend Mary Ann. In fact, the more excited Mallory gets, the less excited Mary Ann becomes. Mallory can't understand...
Tutored
AuthorAllison Whittenberg
ISBN0385738692
Wendy Anderson and Hakiam Powell are at opposite ends of the spectrum—the social spectrum, the financial spectrum, the opportunity spectrum, you name it. Wendy lives in an all-white suburb of Philadelphia, where she’s always felt like the only chip in the cookie. Her dad, who fought his way out...
The Latte Rebellion
AuthorSarah Jamila Stevenson
ISBN0738722782
Our philosophy is simple: Promote a latte-colored world! —from the Latte Rebellion Manifesto

When high school senior Asha Jamison gets called a "towel head" at a pool party, the racist insult gives Asha and her best friend Carey a great money-making idea for a post-graduation trip. They'll...
Marked for Death: Islam's War Against the West and Me
AuthorGeert Wilders
ISBN1596987960
In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders' foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same "strategic objective" - to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He spent almost a decade...
West of the Jordan
AuthorLaila Halaby
ISBN0807083593
This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling...
Under the Ramadan Moon
AuthorSylvia Whitman
ISBN0807583049
Under the Ramadan Moon by Sylvia Whitman (2012)
Genre: Picture book
Format: Book
Plot summary: This picture book describes the celebrations of a modern Muslim American family during the month of Ramadan. Like similar books, the moon plays an important role with the phrase “under the...
The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital
AuthorC. David Heymann
ISBN0743428579
In this definitive portrait of the political and social life of Georgetown, bestselling biographer C. David Heymann chronicles the dinner parties, correspondence, overlappings, and underpinnings of some of the most influential women in Washington's history.

"The Georgetown Ladies'...
Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph
AuthorTerry A. Anderson
ISBN0345467922
"Belongs on the shelf of classics about surviving degradation with dignity and even humor." Time
In March 1985, Terry Anderson was swept up in the violent conflict of a turbulent era. At the mercy of Shiite captors for nearly seven years, he lived in chains, wondering fearfully if each day would...
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