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Palestinian American fifth grader Farah Hajjar and her best friend Allie Liu are excited to apply to Magnet Academy for middle school, but then new girl Dana begins to bully Farah's little brother Samir, and Allie becomes close to Dana's friends. With Farah's parents stressed over work and money, Farah devises a plan to handle the bullying on her own but the plan involves lying, and soon Farah's lies catch up to her.

"Walking to her grandmother's home to help make warak enab, Lina discovers many ways to hear snow, from the scrape of a shovel on a sidewalk to the quiet pats of snowman-building."-- Provided by publisher.

Having to take her younger sister along the first time she is invited to a birthday party spoils Rubina's fun, and later when that sister is asked to a party and baby sister wants to come, Rubina must decide whether to help.

On a field trip to SeaPlanet, seventeen-year-old Arab-American high school swimmer River McIntyre has a chance encounter with Indy, a happy, healthy queer person, which sets off a wrenching journey of self-discovery, from internalized homophobia and gender dysphoria, through layers of coming out, affirmation surgery, and true love. River McIntyre has grown up down the street from Sea Planet, an infamous marine life theme park slowly going out of...

The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy.

Amira Abadi thought she had a strong, loving marriage--until her husband's sudden death reveals his layers of secrets and lies. As Amira looks for answers by retracing her husband's final days, she must balance protecting her devastated children against the cost of the truth.

Twelve-year-old Yasmeen Khoury is unhappy that her family has moved from Detroit to San Antonio, Texas, leaving her friends and Arab Christian community behind; from the very first day at school Yasmeen feels completely isolated and out of place, but she slowly makes friends with a Mexican boy, Carlos, and her Jewish neighbor, Ayelet Cohen, although she feels like she has to hide these friendships, especially from her Palestinian father, a native...

As a financial crisis looms, Jamal "Jack" Shaban is trying to save his neighbors from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really? For his flight attendant colleagues, he's an object of desire, even love, particularly for his sweetly bawdy Wisconsinite best friend, Birdy. Birdy knows nothing about Dimra, Jack's traditional Muslim wife, with whom Jack is desperate to have a child. Nor does Dimra know about Jack's attraction to Marcia: an angry single mom new...

When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.