Cultural Region/Middle Eastern
-
Anisa’s International Day
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Unsettled, meet Anisa, the adorable Pakistani American heroine of this irresistible younger middle grade novel about a girl who introduces her class to the art of mehn
- Author: Faruqi, Reem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063206234
- Language: English
-
We’re Sailing Down the Nile: A Journey Through Egypt
$9.99 Read moreSet sail along the mighty Nile River to experience the wonders of Egypt. The lilting, rhyming story text is followed by eleven pages full of educational information about ancient Egypt, gods and godde… [more below]
- Author: Krebs, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1846861942
- Language: English
-
The Boy Without a Name: English-Pashto Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) On the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who tells them, “This is a very, very important boy, and I’m going to give him something marvelous o
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1944493549
- Language: English
-
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Mythology for Kids
$14.99 Add to cartUnearth the mythology of ancient Egypt-stories of gods and goddesses for kids 8 to 12
From the rising of the morning sun to the summer flooding of the Nile River, the ancient Egyptians believed powerfu
- Author: Moroney, Morgan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 164611423X
- Language: English
-
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
$8.99 Read moreAlia Muhammad Baker’s library in Basra, Iraq, has been a meeting place for those who love books for the past fourteen years. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library–along with the thirty th… [more below]
- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0358141834
- Language: English
-
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls’ Rights
$6.99 Add to cartA chapter book edition of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai’s bestselling story of courageously standing up for girls’ education.
Malala’s powerful memoir of risking her life for the right to- Author: Yousafzai, Malala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0316527157
- Language: English
-
A Persian Passover
$19.99 Read moreEzra and Roza are helping to prepare for their Passover celebration. Ezra is proud to be in charge of bringing his family’s flour to the synagogue to be baked into matzah in a traditional wood-burning
- Author: Basseri, Etan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1735087564
- Language: English
-
The Boy Without a Name
$11.90 Add to cartOn the day a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who tells them, “This is a very, very important boy, and I’m going to give him something marvelous one day, but I will have to give him
- Series: Teaching Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1942698259
- Language: English
-
Fatima the Spinner and the Tent: English-Urdu Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Urdu 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 ashore
- Series: Teaching Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1942698755
- Language: English
-
The Magic Horse: English-Arabic Edition
$11.90 Add to cart(Bilingual English-Arabic edition) This is the story of two brothers: one skilled in the practical arts and the other, Prince Tambal, considered by most people to be only a dreamer. Their father, the
- Series: Hoopoe Teaching-Stories
- Author: Shah, Idries
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1946270350
- Language: English
-
13th Street #6: Fight with the Freeze-Ray Fowls
$15.99 Read moreA silly and spooky highly illustrated series that’s perfect for fans of Eerie Elementary and Notebooks of Doom, featuring art on every page and fun activities at the end of each book
Cousins Malia, D
- Series: Harperchapters #6
- Author: Bowles, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009633
- Language: English
-
Sami and the Time of the Troubles
$7.99 Read moreA ten-year-old Lebanese boy balances his life in a war-torn city.
- Author: Gilliland, Judith Heide
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0395720850
- Language: English
-
My Beautiful Birds
$18.95 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Children’s Books selection. The moving story of one boy’s refugee experience in the Syrian Civil War and the birds who help him on the road to emotional healing
Behind Sami, t
- Author: del Rizzo, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1772780103
- Language: English
-
Malala Speaks Out
$14.99 Read moreMalala Yousafzai was denied education when the Taliban took control of her town in Pakistan. She decided to speak up, despite the danger it put her in. Her story is the story of many girls.
When Malal
- Series: Speak Out #2
- Author: Fons Duocastella, Clara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1773069160
- Language: English
-
National Geographic Readers: Ibn Alhaytham: The Man Who Discovered How We See
$4.99 Add to cartCelebrated in a film featuring Omar Sharif in his final role, meet the scientist known as the “Father of Optics,” Ibn al-Haytham
During the golden age of science, knowledge, and invention in Muslim c- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Romero, Libby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426325002
- Language: English
-
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille
$11.99 Add to cartA biography of the modest Frenchman who, after being blinded at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
- Author: Freedman, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 81
- Publish Date: September 20 1999
- ISBN10: 0395968887
- Language: English
-
Egypt For Kids: People, Places and Cultures – Children Explore The World Books
$14.99 Add to cartLet’s go to Egypt and see the wonders there. Egypt is not just about pyramids. It’s also about the people, the culture and the food too. This educational book will take you to a journey to the land of… [more below]
- Author: Baby Professor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1683056108
- Language: English
-
Listen to the Wind: A Village in Pakistan Builds a School
$18.99 Read moreGreg Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable st… [more below]
- Series: Rise and Shine
- Author: Mortenson, Greg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0803730586
- Language: English
-
Bump
$9.99 Add to cartA moving and triumphant middle grade contemporary debut from award-winning author Matt Wallace about a heroic young girl–who dreams of becoming a pro wrestler–learning to find courage and fight for
- Author: Wallace, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0063007991
- Language: English
-
Us, in Progress: Short Stories about Young Latinos
$18.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of 2017 * A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Public Library Best Book of 2017 * A 2017 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature Honor Book
- Author: Delacre, Lulu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 006239214X
- Language: English
