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Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Kha
Smith Springs Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Kha
Waverly-Belmont Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Kha
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | Tilbury House Publishers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Kha Smith Springs Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Kha Waverly-Belmont Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Kha |
Description
The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E ALA
Lakeview Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E
Maxwell Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E ALA
Publication Date | Edition | Physical Description | Availability | |
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c2008 | [31] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Lakeview Elementary - Everyone 1 available E | ||
2011, c2008 | 1st pbk. ed. | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone 1 available E ALA Maxwell Elementary - Everyone 1 available E ALA |
Description
While Nora waits for the couscous her father is cooking to be finished, he tells her a story about his youth in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Includes author's note and glossary.
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | MackinVIA | G. P. Putnam's Sons | 1 online resource (34 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations | English | Available Online
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A Syrian man named Alaa stays behind in the war-torn city of Aleppo, driving an ambulance for those who need medical care. He notices hungry cats in the city who have been abandoned by their owners and begins to care for them. After more cats show up, he realizes that he can't do it alone and calls on others in the community and the world to help him care for them.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E HEI
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E HEI
Bellshire Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E HEI
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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1995,c1990 | 1st Mulberry ed. | Mulberry Books | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI Bellshire Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI | ||
1990 | Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books | [32] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 x 29 cm. | On Shelf
Eakin Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI Julia Green Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI Westmeade Elementary - Everyone 1 available E HEI |
Description
A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.
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Glencliff Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available
398.2 MCD
Granbery Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available
398.2 MAC
McGavock High - Teen Everyone 1 available
E MAC
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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2009 | Albert Whitman | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 28 cm. | On Shelf
Glencliff Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available 398.2 MCD McGavock High - Teen Everyone 1 available E MAC Smith Springs Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available 398.2 MAC | |
c2013 | AV2 by Weigl | 32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Granbery Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available 398.2 MAC |
Description
When Jouha counts the ten donkeys carrying his dates to market, he repeatedly forgets to count the one he is riding on, causing him great consternation. Includes numbers written out in Arabic and in English transliteration, as well as the numerals one through ten, and a note on the origins and other versions of the story.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction 1 available
F Far
Amqui Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E FAR
Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction 1 available
F Far
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2015. | Tilbury House Publishers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm. | English | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Fiction 1 available F Far Amqui Elementary - Everyone 1 available E FAR Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Fiction 1 available F Far |
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2015 | OverDrive | Tilbury House Publishers | English | Available Online
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Description
Now that she is ten, Lailah is delighted that she can fast during the month of Ramadan like her family and her friends in Abu Dhabi, but finding a way to explain to her teacher and classmates in Atlanta is a challenge until she gets some good advice from the librarian, Mrs. Scrabble.
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography 1 available
B BAK WIN
Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available
020 Win
Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography 1 available
B BAK WIN
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c2005 | Harcourt, Inc | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm. | English | On Shelf
A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Biography 1 available B BAK WIN Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 1 available 020 Win Bellshire Elementary - Kids Biography 1 available B BAK WIN |
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2014 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2014 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Description
Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books within it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians--especially women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's struggle to save her community's priceless collection of books reminds...
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Harris Hillman - Teen Non-Fiction 1 available
636.8 Kun
Hattie Cotton Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Kun
Haywood Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 2 available
636.8 Kun
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | Crown Books for Young Readers | 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
Harris Hillman - Teen Non-Fiction 1 available 636.8 Kun Hattie Cotton Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Kun Haywood Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction 2 available 636.8 Kun |
Description
When an Iraqi family is forced to flee their home, they can t bear to leave their beloved cat, Kunkush, behind. So they carry him with them from Iraq to Greece, keeping their secret passenger hidden away. But during the crowded boat crossing to Greece, his carrier breaks and the frightened cat runs from the chaos. In one moment, he is gone. After an unsuccessful search, his family has to continue their journey, leaving brokenhearted. A few days later,...
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2022. | First edition. | Minedition | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm | English | Available at another branch
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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...
10) Mirror
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E BAK
Cane Ridge High - Teen Everyone 1 available
E BAK
Cane Ridge High - Teen Everyone 1 available
E Bak
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2010 | 1st U.S. ed. | Candlewick Press | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 x 28 cm. | Arabic | On Shelf
Alex Green Elementary - Everyone 1 available E BAK Cane Ridge High - Teen Everyone 1 available E BAK Cane Ridge High - Teen Everyone 1 available E Bak |
Description
In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
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Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E DEL
Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Del
Glengarry Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Del
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | This is a first edition. | Pajama Press Inc | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm | English | On Shelf
Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available E DEL Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Del Glengarry Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Del |
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Fleeing from a home destroyed in the Syrian Civil War, Sami worries about the pet pigeons he left behind.
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2022. | Barefoot Books | 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm | English | Available at another branch
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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.
13) The olive tree
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | Wisdom Tales | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Moss Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Mar |
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Sameer's neighbors left when war came to Lebanon, but now they have returned and instead of finding a friend to play with, Sameer meets an unfriendly girl, Muna, who confronts him about taking olives that fall from her family's tree to his side of the wall.
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Berkeley : | 1 online resource (40 pages) : color illustrations | English | Available Online
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Salma's mother has been sad since they moved away from Syria, leaving her father behind. Salma decides to make her mother a traditional meal of foul shami but needs help translating the ingredients and gathering the spices. With help from a community of refugees living in the same building, Salma is able to make the meal and hear her mother laugh again.
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Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E RUM
Glencliff Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E RUM
Lockeland Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E RUM
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2008 | 1st ed. | Roaring Brook Press | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Cole Elementary - Everyone 1 available E RUM Glencliff Elementary - Everyone 1 available E RUM Lockeland Elementary - Everyone 1 available E RUM |
Description
As bombs and missiles fall on Baghdad in 2003, a young boy uses the art of calligraphy to distance himself from the horror of war.
16) Sitti's secrets
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Dan Mills Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E NYE
Eakin Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E NYE
Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E NYE
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c1994 | 1st American ed. | Maxwell Macmillan International | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. | On Shelf
Eakin Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE Glenview Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE | |
1997, c1994 | 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. | Aladdin Paperbacks | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
Dan Mills Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE Julia Green Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE Maxwell Elementary - Everyone 1 available E NYE | |
1997 | 1st Aladdin Pbk.s ed. | Aladdin Paperbacks | {32} p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. | On Shelf
Gateway Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Nye Hermitage Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Nye Tusculum Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Nye |
Description
A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.
When Mona, a young Arab-American girl, journeys with her father to the Middle East to meet her grandmother, she discovers that they share the universal bonds of family love
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Crieve Hall Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Ran
Cumberland Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E Ran
Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone 1 available
E RAN
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2010 | 1st U.S. ed. | Disney-Hyperion Books | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Crieve Hall Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Ran Cumberland Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Ran Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone 1 available E RAN |
Description
Best friends Lily and Salma disagree over their preferred foods, but after trading sandwiches to see how they taste, the girls change their minds.
18) Stars In My Geddohs Sky
This entry no longer exists in the catalog
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | MackinVIA | Kokila | 1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations | English | Available Online
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Description
Lina wakes up to find the world outside covered in snow, so she puts on her winter clothes and stomps across town to grandma's, where she helps make a special meal. Along the way, she learns ten new ways of listening to the sounds that snow makes.
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2008 | This pbk. ed. | {40} p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm. | On Shelf
Percy Priest Elementary - Everyone 1 available E Kre | |
2007 | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. map ; 26 x 27 cm. | Available at another branch
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Description
As the riverboat sails down the Nile River, remnants of Egypt's long history and aspects of its present culture are revealed on its banks.