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Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parent's world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever. In this unforgettable debut, a Muslim teen copes with Islamophobia, cultural divides among peers and parents, and a reality she can neither explain nor escape. American-born seventeen-year-old Maya Aziz is torn between...
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From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience.
This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will surprise, delight, and move you. So read on, for after all, magic...
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Amira and Hamza volume 2
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Amira and Hamza must race against time to stop an ancient evil from obtaining a ring of power"--
4) Internment
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
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"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
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Amira and Hamza volume 1
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
6) Hollow fires
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
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La elección es mi sueño o el de ellos.
Debut literario de Samira Ahmed en el que una adolescente musulmana indio-estadounidense se enfrenta a la islamofobia y a una realidad que no puede explicar ni de la que puede escapar.
Maya Aziz está dividida entre dos futuros: el que sus padres esperan de su buena hija india-es decir, permanecer en Chicago y ser emparejada con un joven musulmán "adecuado", y el que ella desea: ir a la escuela de cine en...
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Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men. Its August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet American, French, Indian, Muslim is at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding...
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
20240507
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While still coping with her parents' sudden divorce and having to start at a new school midway through her senior year, Noor and two new friends take a stand against book bans at their small-town Illinois high school.
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Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices. In this collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out--and going out for their first kill--and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle...
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"From chudails and peris to jinn and goddesses, this lush collection of South Asian folklore, legends, and epics reimagines stories of old for a modern audience. This fantasy and science fiction teen anthology edited by Samira Ahmed and Sona Charaipotra contains a wide range of stories from fourteen bestselling, award-winning, and emerging writers from the South Asian diaspora that will surprise, delight, and move you. So read on, for after all,...
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You might be the kind of person who stands up to online trolls.
Or who marches to protest injustice.
Perhaps you are #DisabledAndCute and dancing around your living room, alive and proud.
Or perhaps you are the trans mentor that you wish you had when you were younger.
Maybe you call out false allies, or stand up to loved ones.
Maybe you speak your truth and drop the mic, or maybe you take it with you when you leave.
This anthology features fictional...