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10 best books like Habibi (Naomi Shihab Nye): Wanting Mor, The Shepherd's Granddaughter, Samir and Yonatan, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, Jingle Dancer, Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story, Blue Jasmine, A Little Piece of Ground, Under the Persimmon Tree, Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

Wanting Mor
AuthorRukhsana Khan
ISBN0888998589
Jameela and her family live in a poor, war-torn village in Afghanistan. Even with her cleft lip and lack of educational opportunities, Jameela feels relatively secure, sustained by her Muslim faith and the love of her mother, Mor. But when Mor dies, Jameela’s father impulsively decides to start...
The Shepherd's Granddaughter
AuthorAnne Laurel Carter
Amani longs to be a shepherd like her beloved grandfather Sido, who has tended his flock for generations, grazing sheep on their family's homestead near Hebron. Amani loves Sido's many stories, especially one about a secret meadow called the Firdoos. But as outside forces begin to encroach upon this...
Samir and Yonatan
AuthorDaniella Carmi
ISBN0439135230
Winner of the Mildred Batchelder Award, this very human novel of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is both touching and timely

Nothing could be more frightening to Samir, a Palestinian boy, than to be where he is now: an Israeli hospital ward, trapped among the very people he blames for his...
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
AuthorValérie Zenatti
ISBN1599902001
I'm full of fear and full of hope writing to you like this. I've never written to someone I didn't know. It feels strange. I don't know if what I'm doing is good or bad, crazy or just eccentric, useful or pointless.

When Israeli teenager Tal Levine decides to throw a bottle with a letter into the Gaza...
Jingle Dancer
AuthorCynthia Leitich Smith
Tink, tink, tink, tink, sang cone-shaped jingles sewn to Grandma Wolfe's dress.

Jenna's heart beats to the brum, brum, brum, brum of the powwow drum as she daydreams about the clinking song of her grandma's jingle dancing.

Jenna loves the tradition of jingle dancing that has been...
Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story
AuthorS.D. Nelson
ISBN0810983990
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history.   From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York City and Europe with...
Blue Jasmine
AuthorKashmira Sheth
ISBN0786855657
When twelve-year-old Seema Trivedi learns that she and her family must move from their small Indian town to Iowa City, she realizes she'll have to say good-bye to the purple-jeweled mango trees and sweet-smelling jasmine, to the monsoon rains and the bustling market. More important, she must leave...
A Little Piece of Ground
AuthorElizabeth Laird
ISBN1931859388

A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today.


Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of...
Under the Persimmon Tree
AuthorSuzanne Fisher Staples
ISBN0374380252
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and Pakistan   Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,†suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an...
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
AuthorLori Marie Carlson
ISBN0805076166

i think in spanish
i write in english

i want to go back to puerto rico,
but i wonder if my kink could live
in ponce, mayagüez and carolina

tengo las venas aculturadas
escribo en spanglish
abraham in español

--from "My Graduation Speech," by Tato...
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida
AuthorVictor Martinez
ISBN0064471861
Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person – even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies.

Fourteen-year old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny....
The Ramsay Scallop
AuthorFrances Temple
ISBN0064406016
The year is 1299. Fourteen year-old Elenor reluctantly awaits the return of her betrothed -- a man she hardly knows -- from the Crusade. Thomas, broken, and disillusioned from years of fighting, finds the very idea of marriage and lordship overwhelming. So when the village priest sends them on religious...
Teresa of Calcutta: Serving the Poorest of the Poor
AuthorD. Jeanene Watson
ISBN0880620129
Serving the Poorest of the Poor Agnes and her family lived in Macedonia in eastern Europe. Agnes eagerly read letters by missionaries from faraway places. She especially enjoyed the letters from Calcutta, India. Eventually Agnes arrived in Calcutta where she taught young, well-to-do girls. They...
Ali and the Golden Eagle
AuthorWayne Grover
Yes, I know this is not a new book. But, it is such a good one and so often overlooked, that I wanted to mention it here. It is not your typical classroom read aloud-it is a little slow and dry at parts and the teacher should really pair it with other materials to build background knowledge on Saudi Arabia. However,...
Water Sky
AuthorJean Craighead George
ISBN0064402029
"Nukik! Lincoln gasped, his skin tingling. Could this be happening! Had he just seen a whale with a white tail? Was it now going to give itself to him, as Vincent had said?


Lincoln still could not believe it. He had had only one thing in mind when he made the long trip from Massachusetts to Barrow,...
Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story
AuthorPegi Deitz Shea
ISBN0618247483
For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only...
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596432764
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen.
 
Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words...
How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog)
AuthorArt Corriveau
ISBN0810982986
Nicky Flynn’s life just got a whole lot harder. His parents are going through a messy divorce, and as a result he’s starting a new life, in a new city, in a new school. Now his mom has brought home Reggie, an eighty-pound German shepherd fresh from the animal shelter, who used to be a seeing-eye dog. At...
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
AuthorDeborah Ellis
ISBN0888996454
In a rehabilitation center for disabled children, twelve-year-old Nora says she loves the color pink and chewing gum and explains that the wheels of her wheelchair are like her legs. Eleven-year-old Mohammad describes how his house was demolished by soldiers. And we meet twelve-year-old Salam,...
Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
AuthorIbtisam Barakat
ISBN0374357331
"When a war ends it does not go away," my mother says."It hides inside us . . . Just forget!"
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.

In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ramallah during the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, Ibtisam Barakat captures what it is like to be...
Rickshaw Girl
AuthorMitali Perkins
ISBN1580893082
The Rickshaw Girl is a fictional story about a young girl growing up in Bangladesh named Naima. In order to make ends meet, her father had to borrow money to buy a rickshaw and must make payments. Naima wants desperately to help her family, but girls are not allowed to work, and she has no brothers to take...
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