When Michael Met Mina

10 best books like When Michael Met Mina (Randa Abdel-Fattah): Darius the Great Is Not Okay, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, The Poet X, Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment, The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali, Love From A to Z, The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives, Cloudwish, Verify

Darius the Great Is Not Okay
AuthorAdib Khorram
ISBN0525552960
Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran.

Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones. He's about to take his first-ever trip to Iran, and it's pretty overwhelming--especially when he's also dealing...
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
AuthorTahereh Mafi
ISBN0062866567
It’s 2002, a year after 9/11. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped.

Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading...
AuthorElizabeth Acevedo
A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo.

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into...
Love, Hate & Other Filters
AuthorSamira Ahmed
ISBN1616958472
A searing #OwnVoices coming-of-age debut in which an Indian-American Muslim teen confronts Islamophobia and a reality she can neither explain nor escape—perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, and Adam Silvera.

American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between...
Internment
AuthorSamira Ahmed
Rebellions are built on hope.

Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.

With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend...
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali
AuthorSabina Khan
ISBN1338227017
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that harder and harder to do. She rolls her eyes instead of screaming when they blatantly favor her brother and she dresses conservatively at home, saving...
Love From A to Z
AuthorS.K. Ali
A marvel: something you find amazing. Even ordinary-amazing. Like potatoes—because they make French fries happen. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.

An oddity: whatever gives you pause. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world. Like Zayneb’s...
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
AuthorDashka Slater
ISBN0374303231
One teenager in a skirt.
One teenager with a lighter.
One moment that changes both of their lives forever.

If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but...
AuthorFiona Wood
ISBN1743533128
For Vân Uoc Phan, fantasies fall into two categories: nourishing, or pointless. Daydreaming about Billy Gardiner, for example? Pointless. It always left her feeling sick, as though she'd eaten too much sugar.

Vân Uoc doesn't believe in fairies, zombies, vampires, Father Christmas -...
Verify
AuthorJoelle Charbonneau
Meri Beckley lives in a world without lies. When she turns on the news, she hears only the facts. When she swipes the pages of her online textbooks, she reads only the truth. When she looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels the pride everyone in the country feels about the era of unprecedented hope...
AuthorMitali Perkins
ISBN0374304904
4 Stars

A book about five complex Indian women and their relationship with culture and race?? How is nobody talking about this gem??

Starting in the 1960s and working towards modern day, this follows a young Bengali family as they move to NYC-- notably Ranee and her children, Tara and...
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