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"The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain, published in 1869, which humorously chronicles what Twain called his 'Great Pleasure Excursion' on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City), through Europe and the Holy Land, with a group of American travelers in 1867." --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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930L
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"In today's uncertain world, many families are leaving their home countries and seeking better lives in the United States. Immigrants from Afghanistan and the Middle East explores the stories of two families who left their home countries for better opportunities in the United States. Follow their journeys to find out why they left their homelands and understand the challenges they faced in moving to a new country"--Back cover.
4) Indian shoes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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820L
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Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
5) Yatandou
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Yatandou lives in a Mali village with her family and neighbors. And though she is only eight years old and would much rather play with her pet goat, she must sit with the women and pound millet kernels. To grind enough millet for one day's food, the women must pound the kernels with their pounding sticks for three hours. It is hard work, especially when one is eight years old. But as they work, the women dream of a machine that can grind the millet...
6) Tomorrow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 540L
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When Yazan is no longer allowed to go to the park and play outside, he learns why his parents watch the news all day and why the streets around his house in Syria are quickly changing.
7) Wanting Mor
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Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category
Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village, and Jameela lives with a birth defect that has left her with a cleft lip, she feels relatively secure, sustained by her faith and the strength of her beloved mother, Mor.
But when Mor suddenly dies, Jameela's father impulsively
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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730L
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Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
10) By Blood & Blade
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In the land of Taletha, the Wife Market is the prime place for young lords to find a spouse...but not the place for love. Something Inara knows all too well. After six years of rejection, she has no hope of being chosen for anything but a plaything.
When the future ruler of Taletha arrives at the Market, Inara is chosen. More shocking still, Dhamar is exactly what he appears to be: kind, gentle, and willing to build a relationship of mutual respect...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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540L
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Eleven-year-old Malaak and her family are touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her older brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad.
12) Ronit & Jamil
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A lyrical novel in verse retells the story of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the modern-day Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, where an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy are brought together by their distrustful fathers' business arrangements and fall into a forbidden love.
13) Dawn and Dusk
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For as long as thirteen-year-old Azad can remember, the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he lives in the predominantly Kurdish town of Sardasht, has been at war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and his country has been a harsh society full of spies, secrets, and "disappearances." Still, most of the time Azad manages to live a normal life, hanging out at the bakery next door, going to school with his friend Hiwa, playing sports, and taking care of his parrot....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 590L
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When Ali's aged great-grandmother, with whom he lives, tells him the one thing she wishes for that she never did was to see the sea, two days walk away across the desert, he sets out with a pail to make the journey for her.
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New Friends, New Places is an exciting, adventurous account of a young British Muslim boy, Adam's stay on an Egyptian farm during his summer holidays. Apart from rejoicing in the simplicity and beauty of the countryside life and joy of a large, extended family, Adam learns more about Islam and what is means to be a Muslim, during his stay in Egypt.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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880L
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Twelve-year-old Ariana, a tomboy, and her ladylike cousin Laila, recently arrived from Afghanistan, do not get along but they pull together when a rival Afghani grocery store opens, rekindling an old family feud and threatening their family's livelihood.
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AD 970L
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"A father and his daughters may not be able to return home . . . but they can celebrate stories of their homeland! As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them stories of a faraway homeland-Palestine. Through their father's memories, the Old City of Jerusalem comes to life: the sounds of street vendors beating rhythms with brass coffee cups, the smell of argileh drifting through windows, and the...
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