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A young girl and her family have to suddenly leave home, traveling by foot through different landscapes and settling in a new city, that looks and feels very different from home.
2) So loud!
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Golshan
1 available
E Golshan
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Golshan
1 available
E Golshan
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Golshan
1 available
E Golshan
1 available
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"A fun and touching debut that explores the power of finding your voice. Rudābeh (Rudy for short) loves to talk, sing, jump and shout. There's just one problem: the adults in her life are always telling her that she is SO LOUD. When her grandmother (Māmān Bozorg) visits from Iran for the first time, Rudy worries that she might be too loud for her. But as she tries to be quieter, Rudy starts to feel less and less like herself. Listening closely...
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Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Rosie
1 available
E Rosie
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Rosie
2 available
E Rosie
2 available
Madison - Kids Easy
E Rosie
1 available
E Rosie
1 available
Description
"Grandpa is finally here to visit! He's brought a suitcase smelling of Persian spices, walnuts picked from his trees at home, and sparkly saffron to make yellow rice. And Grandpa and granddaughter have so much they want to see and do together. She shows him all her favorite things: the mountaintops, the tunnel she discovered, and the horse in the field. If only Grandpa could stay longer, then he could see the spring. But when time together is limited,...
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Moushab
1 available
E Moushab
1 available
Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Moushab
1 available
E Moushab
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Moushab
1 available
E Moushab
1 available
Description
"A Palestinian family celebrates the stories of their homeland in this moving autobiographical picture book debut by Hannah Moushabeck. With heartfelt illustrations by Reem Madooh, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is a love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people, which transcends borders"--
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Abdel-F
1 available
E Abdel-F
1 available
Inglewood - Kids Easy
E Abdel-F
1 available
E Abdel-F
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Abdel-F
1 available
E Abdel-F
1 available
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"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...
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Madison - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Description
When Zuzu straightens her curly hair, everyone thinks she looks fantastic, but Zuzu does not feel like herself without her frizz, and decides to keep her beautiful hair just the way it is.
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Madison - Kids Easy
E Ghaname
1 available
E Ghaname
1 available
Main Library - Kids Easy
E Ghaname
1 available
E Ghaname
1 available
Description
"It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits, and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war. But war has come to their door once more, forcing them to flee. Even as her family is uprooted, Oraib...
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Pliska
1 available
E Pliska
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Pliska
1 available
E Pliska
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Pliska
1 available
E Pliska
1 available
Description
In this love letter to Cairo, Egypt, a young child is sung a lullaby by her great-aunt who paints a vivid portrait of the ancient city as the child drifts off to sleep.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Esnaash
1 available
E Esnaash
1 available
Donelson - Kids Easy
E Esnaash
2 available
E Esnaash
2 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Esnaash
1 available
E Esnaash
1 available
Description
While spending time with her Babajoon and Mamanjoon, Miriam begins to notice details about her Babajoon that make her think he could be a pirate, which leads him to share memories with her about his childhood in Iran.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Thompson Lane - Kids Easy
E Sharif
1 available
E Sharif
1 available
Description
Bushra and her brother miss their mother, including the way she made their favorite dish, kubbat halab, which had no equal--so Bushra, her brother, and their father set out to learn how to make this special treat. Includes information on and a recipe for this Iraqi specialty.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
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j390.0953 C195a
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Green Hills - Kids Non-Fiction
j390.0953 C195a
1 available
j390.0953 C195a
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
j390.0953 C195a
1 available
j390.0953 C195a
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Description
"Yallah! From January to December, join some busy kids as they partake in traditions old and new. There's so much to do, whether it's learning to write Arabic or looking at hijab fashion sites while planning costumes for a local comic convention. With details as vivid as the scent of jasmine and honeysuckle perfume (made to remind Mom of Morocco), children bond with friends, honor tradition, and spend loving time with family. Accompanied by buoyant...
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Basseri
2 available
E Basseri
2 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Basseri
1 available
E Basseri
1 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Basseri
1 available
E Basseri
1 available
Description
"Ezra and Roza are helping to prepare for their Passover celebration. Ezra is proud to be in charge of bringing his family's flour to the synagogue to be baked into matzah in a traditional wood-burning oven. But when Ezra makes a mistake and the matzah is ruined, what will he and his sister Roza, do? Join the siblings as they experience the sights, smells, sounds, and unique traditions of a seder in Iran of the 1950s"--
13) Under my hijab
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
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Bellevue - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Bordeaux - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Edgehill - Kids Audiobook
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Talking Book E Khan
1 available
Description
As a young girl observes that each of six women in her life wears her hijab and hair in a different way, she considers how to express her own style one day.
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Bordeaux - Kids Easy
E Tarnows
1 available
E Tarnows
1 available
Donelson - Kids Easy
E Tarnows
1 available
E Tarnows
1 available
East - Kids Easy
E Tarnows
1 available
E Tarnows
1 available
Description
Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library.
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East - Kids Easy
E AlHathl
1 available
E AlHathl
1 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E AlHathl
1 available
E AlHathl
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E AlHathl
1 available
E AlHathl
1 available
Description
"Loujain watches her beloved baba attach his feather wings and fly each morning, but her own dreams of flying face a big obstacle: only boys, not girls, are allowed to fly in her country. Yet despite the taunts of her classmates, she is determined to do it--especially because Loujain loves colors, and only by flying can she see the color-filled field of sunflowers her baba has told her about. Eventually, he agrees to teach her, and Loujain's impossible...
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Khan
1 available
E Khan
1 available
Description
In this counting book, a young boy introduces some of the basic principles of Islam.
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Merabia
1 available
E Merabia
1 available
East - Kids Easy
E Merabia
1 available
E Merabia
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Merabia
1 available
E Merabia
1 available
Description
In an Iranian bathhouse on the eve of Nowruz, three boys suspect a Div--a monster--is wreaking havoc on their New Year preparations.
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Donelson - Kids Easy
E Hrab
1 available
E Hrab
1 available
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Hrab
1 available
E Hrab
1 available
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Hrab
2 available
E Hrab
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Description
After her grandfather's death, a young girl explores her Baba Bazorg's house. As the girl wanders through the house, almost idly, her Baba Bazorg's house stands in for the man himself, with each object she describes standing as a touchstone to a memory, and each memory serving as a window into the relationship between the child and her grandfather. As she looks through its rooms, the things she sees and the object she touches bring to life memories...
19) Halal hot dogs
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Aziz
1 available
E Aziz
1 available
East - Kids Easy
E Aziz
1 available
E Aziz
1 available
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Aziz
1 available
E Aziz
1 available
Description
Every Friday Musa's family takes turns picking out a Jummah treat which they use to try all different foods, but when it is Musa's turn he sticks to his favorite halal hot dogs to share.
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Description
The story of a camel whose cruel owner only realizes what suffering he has caused when the Prophet appears and shows love to the animal. Inspired by the retelling of a traditional Muslim hadith.