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