The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks

The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks Quill Tree / HarperCollins Wolf Hollow meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Danielle Binks’s debut middle grade novel set in 1999, where a twelve-year-old girl grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town. If you asked Fred to draw a map […]

The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal

The Sevenfold Hunters by Rose Egal Page Street Kids Sci-fi fans will love this genre-bending debut full of cutthroat school politics and the speculative intrigue of alien contact. There’s nothing […]

Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester Murad

Ida in the Middle by Nora Lester Murad Interlink Publishing Group Every time violence erupts in the Middle East, Ida knows what’s coming at her school near Boston. Some of her classmates treat her as if it’s all her fault—just for being Palestinian. In eighth grade, Ida is forced to move to a different school, […]

Against All Odds: Girls Rock : Indonesia by Claudia Bellante

Against All Odds: Girls Rock : Indonesia Claudia Bellante, illustrated by Josefina Schargorodsky Interlink Three girls in Indonesia discover their passion for heavy metal music in this brand new picture book series In a small village in Java, Indonesia three young Muslim girls begin to explore their passion for heavy metal music after watching a […]

Rebel of Fire and Flight by Aneesa Marufu

Rebel of Fire and Flight by Aneesa Marufu Chicken House / Scholastic This is the story of sixteen-year-old Khadija, who flees her home in a stolen hot air balloon to escape life in an arranged marriage. A deeply relevant, commercial fantasy adventure by an enthralling new talent, exploring prejudice, the deep roots of hatred, and […]

The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com […]

My First Book About Salah by Sara Khan

My First Book About Salah by Sara Khan Illustrated by Ali Lodge Kube Publishing The perfect book to introduce children to the Gift of Prayer (Salah). This simple but beautiful […]

Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim

Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House The first book in an epic fantasy series set in an Arabian-inspired land with secret spice magic. Raised to protect her […]