Hanna Alkaf
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Once upon an Eid is a collection of short stories that showcases [fifteen of] the most brilliant Muslim voices writing today, all about the most joyful holiday of the year: Eid! Eid: The short, single-syllable word conjures up a variety of feelings and memories for Muslims. Maybe it's waking up to the sound of frying samosas and simmering pistachio kheer, maybe it's the pleasure of putting on a new outfit for Eid prayers, or maybe it's the gift giving...