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Summer Reading Suggestions

5th Grade to 7th Grade

●  52 Poems for 52 Weeks: A Lunar Year by Abdullah Mansoor

●  A Bit of Earth by Karuna Riazi

●  A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

●  A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic by Lisa Papademetriou

●  A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi

●  Accused: My Story of Injustice (I, Witness Series Book 1) by Adama Bah

●  Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza

●  Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

●  Amazing Muslims Who Changed the World: Extraordinary Stories of Incredible People by Burhana Islam illustrated by Reya Ahmed, Deema Alawa, Nabi H. Ali, Saffa Khan, Aaliya Jaleel and Aghnia Mardiyah

●  Amazing Women of the Middle East: 25 Stories from Ancient Times to Present Day by Wafa’ Tarnowska

●  Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

●  Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds by Samira Ahmed

●  An Andalus Adventure by S.N. Jalali

●  Anything But Okay by Sarah Darer Littman

●  Ayesha Dean- The Lisbon Lawbreaker by Melati Lum

●  Ayesha Dean: The Istanbul Intrigue by Melati Lum

●  Ayesha Dean: The Seville Secret by Melati Lum

●  Baddawi by Leila Abdelrazaq

●  Barakah Beats by Maleeha Siddiqui

●  Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile

●  Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renee Watson

●  Book One: Thunderbird by Sonia Nimr translated by M. Lynx Qualey

●  Boy, Everywhere by A.M. Dassu

●  Brave by Svetlana Chmakova

●  City of the Plague Gods (Rick Riordan Presents) by Sarwat Chadda

●  Connecting with Allah: A Treasury of Poems by Mona Zac illustrated by Neamah Aslam

●  Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan

●  Enduring Freedom by Jawad Arash and Trent Reedy

●  Escape From Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

●  Escape from Syria by Samya Kullab, Jackie Roche, and Mike Freiheit

●  Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

●  Fight Back by A.M. Dassu

●  Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi

●  Golden Girl by Reem Faruqi

●  Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf

●  Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester Murad

●  Invincible Abdullah: The Deadly Mountain Revenge by Haji Uthman Hutchinson

●  Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo

●  Islamophobia deal with it in the name of peace by Safia Saleh illustrated by Hana Shafi

●  Islamic History for Kids: Story of Badr by Qasim Riaz

●  It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas

●  Jasmine Falling by Shereen Malherbe

●  Lala Comics: The Hilarious encounters of a Muslim Woman Learning Her Religion by Umm Sulayman

●  Leila and the Sands of Time by Shirin Shamsi

●  Little Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties by Humza Arshad & Henry White illustrated by Aleksei Bitskoff

●  Luv Ya Bunches by Lauren Miracle

●  Majdi Mansoor and the Book of Miracles by Anisa Bezak

●  Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz illustrated by AG Ford

●  Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali by Kephra Burns illustrated by Leo & Dianne Dillon

●  Marvel Avengers Assembly: Orientation by Preeti Chhibber illustrated by James Lancett

●  More to the Story by Hena Khan

●  Mosque by David Macaulay

●  Ms. Marvel No Normal & Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson illustrated byAdrian Alphona & Jacob Wyatt

●  Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith adapted by Margeaux Weston (A Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)

●  Muslim Girls Rise: Inspirational Champions of Our Time by Saira Mir illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel

●  Neither This Nor That by Aliya Husain

●  Nimrullah: The Quest for the Green Dagger by Aaron Spevack

●  nine, ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

●  Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh

●  Once Upon an Eid: Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices edited by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed

●  Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

●  Piece by Afshan Malik

●  Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrin’s Hijab by Priya Huq

●  Proud: Living My American Dream (Young Readers Edition) by Ibtihaj Muhammad

●  Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

●  Running Overload by Jake Maddox illustrated by Tina Francisco

●  Sadia by Colleen Nelson

●  Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan

●  Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam by Diane Stanley

●  Sasquatch in the Paint by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld

●  Satoko and Nada 1 by Yupechika

●  Saving Sunshine by Saadia Faruqi illustrated by Shazleen Khan

●  Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan illustrated by Ben Hibon

●  Sunbolt by Intisar Khanani

●  Swimming on the Lawn by Yasmin Hamid

●  Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

●  That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy

●  The Adventures of Nur Al-Din by Badees Nouiouat

●  The Awakening of Malcolm X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Tiffany D. Jackson

●  The Battle by Karuna Riazi

●  The Bee Tree by Stephen Buchmann and Diana Cohn illustrated by Paul Mirocha

●  The Broken Kingdom by H.G. Hussein

●  The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad

●  The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson

●  The Gauntlet by Karuna Riazi

●  The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

●  The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland illustrated by Mary Grandpre’

●  The Light at the Bottom of the World by London Shah

●  The Magic Horse by Idries Shah illustrated by Julie Freeman

●  The Muslims by Zanib Mian

●  The Servant by Fatima Sharafeddine

●  The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga

●  The Sign of the Scorpion by Farah Zaman

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