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Arab American Heritage Books for Youth

Arab Americans have ancestry in one of the world's 22 Arab nations, located from Northern Africa through Western Asia. While ethnically, politically, and religiously diverse, they share a common cultural and linguistic heritage, speaking the same language -- Arabic.

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50 items

  • Eleven Words for Love

    a Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love

    Abdel-Fattah, Randa
    Picture Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — XXF ABDEL-FATTAH, RANDA
  • Not Yet

    the Story of An Unstoppable Skater

    Lari, Zahra,
    Book, 2024New York : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2024. — X796.91 LARI
  • Swimming Toward a Dream

    Yusra Mardini's Incredible Journey From Refugee to Olympic Swimmer

    Faruqi, Reem
    Book, 2023Salem, MA : Page Street Kids, 2023. — X797.2 MARDINI
  • Picture Book, 2023New York : Holiday House, [2023] — XXF NAMIR, HASAN
  • Picture Book, 2023New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — XXF PLISKA, ZEENA
  • Book, 2022Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022. — X956 CAMPER
  • Picture Book, 2022Concord, MA : Barefoot Books, 2022. — XXF TARNOWSKA, WAFA
  • Book, 2021Northampton, MA : Crocodile Books, 2021. — XF ALRAWI, KARIM
  • Picture Book, 2021New York, NY : Little Bee Books, 2021. — XXF AZIZ, SUSANNAH
  • Picture Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — XXF YUKSEL, M.
  • Picture Book, 2020New York : Kokila, [2020] — XXF CAMPER, CATHY
  • Picture Book, 2020Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, [2020] — XXF KHALIL, AYA
  • Picture Book, 2020New York : Putnam, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2020] — XXF LATHAM, IRENE
  • Book, 2020New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — X811 NYE
  • Building Zaha

    the Story of Architect Zaha Hadid

    Tentler-Krylov, Victoria
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2020. — X921 HADID, ZAHA
  • Picture Book, 2019New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — XXF MUHAMMAD, IBTIHAJ