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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family...
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
2002. A year after 9/11, it's an extremely turbulent time politically for Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who's tired of being stereotyped. She's tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments, even the physical violence she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Now she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother. When she meets Ocean James., he seems...
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
7) Azar on fire
Author
Series
Perfectly Parvin volume 2
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Azar Rossi sets out to find her voice and win her local Battle of the Bands contest"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Opportunity knocks for an Iranian immigrant in California when the county offers for sale a seized house at a bargain price. It will serve as a launching pad for his real-estate business. When the county discovers it made an error, the drug-addicted woman who owned the house demands its return, but the Iranian refuses. Unfortunately for him, the woman's lover is a policeman who takes the law into his hands.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school junior Leila's Persian heritage already makes her different from her classmates at Armstead Academy, and if word got out that she liked girls life would be twice as hard, but when a new girl, Saskia, shows up, Leila starts to take risks she never thought she would, especially when it looks as if the attraction between them is mutual, so she struggles to sort out her growing feelings by confiding in her old friends.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After accidentally ruining his family's haft-seen, a display of seven traditional items to bring luck in the Persian New Year, young Kian finds seven unusual items to replace them. Includes facts about Nowruz.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1996 southern California, high school senior Rana Joon wants to honor her deceased best friend by entering a rap contest and living authentically as a lesbian, but feels conflicted by her Iranian family's expectations.
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly returning home to observe the first anniversary of her sister's death, Mitra, banished by her controlling father due to her rebellious nature, confronts hard truths from her past and that of her sister, a process that forges an unexpected path forward with her mother, who has always been caught in the middle.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
16) Once there was
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Iranian American Marjan discovers her murdered father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creatures, she realizes she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After lying on her college admissions, seventeen-year-old Jasmine needs to win her senior class election, but the Iran Hostage Crisis explodes across the nightly news and her opponent begins to stir up anti-Iranian hysteria at school causing Jasmine to reconcile with her identity in way she never has before.
19) Down and across
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Scott Ferdowsi's impromptu trip to a famous professor for advice about success turns into a summer of freedom that brings him answers in unexpected places"--
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic, from the author of Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card. The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela,...
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