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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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It's 2002, a year after 9/11, and Shirin has just started at yet another school. It's an extremely turbulent time for the world, but also for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. But she's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every...
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English
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Could I be a terrorist and just not know it? Maz Jobrani has grappled with this question ever since his family emigrated from Iran in 1978. First, there was the schoolyard bully who seemed convinced Maz was involved in the revolution, even though he was only eight years old at the time. later, when he started auditioning for movies and TV shows, it seems he really looked the part of the evil Arab, which must be why that was the only part he was ever...
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English
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Inspired by her own family's experiences following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Susanne Pari explores the entangled lives within an Iranian American family grappling with generational culture clashes, the roles imposed on women, and a tragic accident that forces them to reconcile their guilt or forfeit their already tenuous bonds. Set between San Francisco and New Jersey in the late-1990's, In the Time of Our History is a story about the universal...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
5) Wave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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