Randa Abdel-Fattah
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
Author
Series
Friendship matchmaker volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Lara Zany is her middle school's official Friendship Matchmaker, but a new student, Emily Wong, has her own ideas on the subject and they vie to match two "hopeless cases" with their perfect best friend.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A family has fled their homeland in search of safety in another country, carrying a single suitcase. As their journey unfolds, the oldest child reflects on the special contents of that suitcase: photo albums that evoke eleven of many names for love in Arabic. From sunshine-warm friendship to the love that dissolves all tears; from the love that makes you swoon to the love that leaves you yearning for the heart's homeland--her family has experienced...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time....
Author
Series
Friendship matchmaker volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
Lara Zany promised to stop being a friendship matchmaker but when Majur, a refugee from Sudan, transfers to her school and clashes with the school bully, Chris Martin, both boys need her special skills.
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