19 varieties of gazelle : poems of the Middle East, by Naomi Shihab
Nye
Greenwillow Books, 2002
A collection of sixty poems in which the Arab-American author examines
life in the Middle East.
Interest Level: 5-8
Reading Level: 6.8
Habibi, by Naomi Shihab Nye
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997
When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her syounger 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 tensiions between Jews and Palestinians. Accelerated Reader:
5.2
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997
Hosni, a shepherd living in the desert, finally realizes his dream of traveling to the city where he spends his gold dinar in a way which changes his life forever. Reading Level: 4.2
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
Reveals the methods and materials used to construct a mosque in late-sixteenth century Turkey.
Reading Level: 7.5;
Accelerated Reader: 8.0
Saladin, noble prince of Islam, by Diane Stanley
HarperCollins, 2002
A biography of the Moslem leader who opposed the crusaders under King
Richard the Lionheart.
Reading Level: 4.8
Accelerated Reader: 7.0
Samir and Yonatan, by Daniella Carmi
Arthur A. Levine, 2000
Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where
he has two other worldly experiences making friends with an Israeli boy,
Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace about
his brother's death in the war.
Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2003; c1989
Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes. Accelerated Reader: 5.9
Holiday House, 1992
A retelling of the adventures of Aladdin who, with the aid of a genie from a magic lamp, fights an evil sorcerer and wins the hand of a beautiful princess. Reading Level: 5.2
