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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The tale of friendship between two people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
"Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible."—School Library Journal
In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and...
"Makes an incredibly complicated topic comprehensible."—School Library Journal
In 1967, a twenty-five-year-old refugee named Bashir Khairi traveled from the Palestinian hill town of Ramallah to Ramla, Israel, with a goal: to see the beloved stone house with the lemon tree in its backyard that he and...
2) Salt Houses
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English
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"From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel about a Palestinian family caught between present and past, between displacement and home ... On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is up rooted...
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Language
English
Description
"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in constant lockdown, and often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with bombs, rubble and the ever-present menace of surveillance drones policing a people unwelcome in their own land. They are also suffused with the smell of tea, roses in bloom, and the view of a sunset over the sea. Children are born, families continue traditions, students attend university,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
"With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W. Said traces the fatal collision between two peoples in the Middle East and its repercussions in the lives of both the occupier and the occupied-as well as in the conscience of the West. He has updated this landmark work to portray the changed status of Palestine and its people in light of such developments as the...
7) EXILE
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Language
English
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David Wolfe's life is approaching an exhilarating peak: a successful San Francisco lawyer, he's about to get married and has been primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif-the Palestinian woman with whom he had a passionate affair in law school-he begins a completely unexpected journey. The day after Hana's call, the Prime Minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber; soon, Hana herself is...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Through the story of Palestinian peace activist Sulaiman Khatib, this book offers a narrative meditation on joint nonviolence and shared dreams in Israel-Palestine, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple narratives, and imagination that touch conflicts and struggles for justice everywhere"--
Author
Publisher
Zaytoon Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The olive trees grow each year, just waiting to discover the magic within their growth. Waiting, for the next time to occur again..." Discover the beauty of Palestine through a young girl's journey as she learns the tradition of the olive harvest. A tradition tat continues between each generation to maintain the roots of the Palestinian community. Alia show s the beauty of the harvest and learns the importance of the olive tree harvest through her...
Author
Publisher
Hurst & Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of Palestine, from the Nakba to the present-a seventy-five-year tale of conflict, exodus, occupation, return and search for belonging, seen through the eyes of one writer and her family. Jiryis reveals how her...
12) Far from home
Author
Publisher
Diyala Rasul
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dalia is a young American girl who just moved to a new country. Overwhelmed by her feelings, she tries to open up to her new environment with her Teta, and friend Bear, by her side. Join Dalia as she encounters new places and faces, far from the home she once knew
Author
Publisher
Just World Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This new edition of an award-winning cookbook shares with readers the little-known but distinctive cuisine of the Gaza region of Palestine, presenting 130 recipes collected by the authors from Gaza. Cooks will find great, kitchen-tested recipes for spicy stews, piquant dips, fragrantly flavored fish dishes, and honey-drenched desserts. They will also be entranced by the hundreds of beautiful photos of Gazan cooks, farmers, and fresh-produce merchants...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hayaat of Bethlehem faces check points, curfews, and the travel permit system designed to keep people on the West Bank when she attempts to go to her grandmother's ancestral home in Jerusalem with her best friend
15) Habibi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When fourteen-year-old Liyana Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians
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English
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"What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One of Ahed's earliest memories is visiting her father in prison,...
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Language
English
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"Bassam Aramin is Palestinian. Rami Elhanan is Israeli. They inhabit a world of intractable conflict that colors every aspect of their daily lives, from the roads they are allowed to take to the schools their daughters, Abir and Smadar, each attend. Theirs is a life in which children from both sides of the wall throw stones at one another. But their worlds shift irreparably when ten-year-old Abir is killed by a rubber bullet meant to quell unruly...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary Gazan's chronicle of the struggle to survive during Israel's 2014 invasion of Gaza The fifty-day Israel-Gaza conflict that began in early July of 2014 left over 2,100 people dead. The overwhelming majority of the dead were Palestinians, including some 500 children. Another 13,000-odd Palestinians were wounded, and 17,200 homes demolished. These statistics are sadly familiar, as is the political rhetoric from Israeli and Palestinian authorities...
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English
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"Hamid, a college student, has entered Israeli territory illegally for work. Rushing past soldiers, he bumps into Vera, a German journalist headed to Jerusalem to cover the story of Salem, a Palestinian boy beaten into a coma by a group of revenge-seeking Israeli teenagers. On her way to the hospital, Vera runs in front of a car that barely avoids hitting her. The driver is Ido, a new father traveling with his American wife and their baby. Ido is...
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