The Button Box by Fawzia Gilani-Williams and Bridget Hodder, illustrated by Harshad Marathe Kar-Ben/Lerner An #OwnVoices story cowritten by a Jewish author and a Muslim author, featuring a pair of best friends―one Jewish and one Muslim―going back in time to learn about their shared past After Jewish fifth-grader Ava and her Muslim best friend Nadeem […]
Thunderbird : Book One by Sonia Nimr, translated by M. Lynx Qualey Center for Middle Eastern Studies at University of Texas-Austin / University of Texas Press The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to […]
Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic by Wauter Mannaert Macmillan/First Second In this silly, action-packed graphic novel from Wauter Mannaert, Chef Yasmina and the Potato Panic, a young chef is the only one who can protect her town from an onslaught of scientifically enhanced, highly addictive potatoes. Yasmina isn’t like the other kids in her city. […]