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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the vein of Dominicana and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Pakistani-American community Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. But when a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia's idyllic childhood is shattered forever. In middle school, Razia befriends a new girl, Taslima, and they begin to chafe...
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school after tragedy strikes her community"--
Amina, a Pakistani-American Muslim girl, struggles to stay true to her family's culture while dealing with the vandalism of the local Islamic Center and mosque and her best friend Soojin's new friendship with their former nemesis.
3) Meet Yasmin!
Author
Series
Yasmin volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In this compilation of four separately published books, Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home, while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned...
5) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young Pakistani man graduates from Princeton and embarks on his career on Wall Street, he finds himself stuck in the midst of a struggle between his own dream, a hostage crisis, and the calls of his family back home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
110 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kamala Khan (a.k.a Ms. Marvel) is stretched too thin-literally. She's having a hard time balancing schoolwork with being a good friend, being there for her family, becoming the best fanfic writer this side of the Hudson River... and, you know, becoming a Super Hero. She's tired and just barely keeping control, BUT she's handling it. Totally."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Yali Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seamlessly blending history with myth, HOUSE OF GLASS HEARTS follows a Pakistani-American teen's ruthless quest to find her missing sibling, even if the truth would reveal her grandfather's devastating secret and tear her family apart."--Publisher's description.
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