People & Places - Middle East
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A Thousand Questions
$9.99 Read moreSet against the backdrop of Karachi, Pakistan, Saadia Faruqi’s tender and honest middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval with kind hearts, big
- Author: Faruqi, Saadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0062943219
- Language: English
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Nour’s Secret Library
$9.99 Read moreForced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author’s own life experience and ins… [more below]
- Author: Tarnowska, Wafa’
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1646862929
- Language: English
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Checkpoints
$14.95 Add to cartAn Israeli and a Palestinian girl struggle to maintain their friendship in the face of conflict; Noa, an Israeli Jew, and Maha, a Palestinian Muslim, are two very different teenage girls–who may not … [more below]
- Author: Levy, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0827608705
- Language: English
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Fatima the Spinner and the Tent: English-Pashto Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast asho
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1944493565
- Language: English
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El Pan de la Guerra
$10.99 Add to cartParvana tiene 11 años y vive en Afganistán bajo el mandato de los talibanes. Cuando detienen a su padre buscará una solución desesperada: convertirse en un chico.
Parvana es una chica de once año
- Series: Breadwinner #1
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1554987644
- Language: Spanish
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One More Mountain
$18.99 Read moreIt’s 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.
In Kabul, 15-year-
- Series: Breadwinner #5
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1773068857
- Language: English
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Mud City
$11.99 Add to cartThe third book in the internationally bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey and My Name Is Parvana.
Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in
- Series: Breadwinner #3
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1554987733
- Language: English
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Nour’s Secret Library
$17.99 Add to cartForced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author’s own life experience and ins… [more below]
- Author: Tarnowska, Wafa’
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1646862910
- Language: English
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Omar Rising
$8.99 Add to cartIn this compelling companion to New York Times bestseller Amal Unbound, Omar contends with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
When Omar g- Author: Saeed, Aisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593108604
- Language: English
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A Little Piece of Ground
$14.99 Add to cartA 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
- Author: Laird, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: 1-Oct-06
- ISBN10: 1931859388
- Language: English
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Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story
$18.95 Add to cartA sensitive and heart warming story of how a little girl in Gaza finds strength and hope through her painting. Sitti’s Bird is a unique children’s picture book, written and illustrated by Palestinian
- Author: Mattar, Malak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 09, 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718252
- Language: English
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The Breadwinner
$11.99 Add to cart“All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis.” — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, s
- Series: Breadwinner #1
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 1554987652
- Language: English
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The Breadwinner Trilogy
$19.99 Add to cart“All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis.” — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
The three books in Deborah Ellis’s Breadwinner trilogy bound into one handsome volume
Deborah Ellis’s no
- Series: Breadwinner #1
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0888999593
- Language: English
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Banana Dream
$18.99 Add to cartA young boy in Iraq yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare.
Growing up in Iraq after the Gulf War, Mooz didn’t always like his name, which means “banana”. But when he l- Author: Namir, Hasan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0823451003
- Language: English
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Omar Rising
$17.99 Add to cart“Irresistibly appealing and genuinely inspiring–a story that helps us to see the world more clearly, and to see ourselves as powerful enough to change it.” –Rebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award Wi… [more below]
- Author: Saeed, Aisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593108582
- Language: English
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Parvana’s Journey
$11.99 Add to cartThe second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana
In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries
- Series: Breadwinner #2
- Author: Ellis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1554987709
- Language: English
