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CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J	Czernecki, Stefan	Zorah's Magic Carpet A Moroccan woman's magic carpet takes her to far away places, which provide inspiration for her to create other beautiful carpets.	1995
J HAVEN	Haven, Paul	The Seven Keys of Balabad Unlike his news-reporter father and art-historian mother who find living in the ancient, war-torn country of Balabad endlessly interesting, twelve-year-old Oliver, homesick for New York City, feels very much out of his element until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure.	2009
J	Heide, Florence Parry	Sami and the Time of the Troubles A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street.	1992
J	Khan, Rukhsana	The Roses in My Carpets When a young boy and his mother and sister come to a refugee camp to escape the war in Afghanistan, he finds some comfort in the beauty of the carpets he is learning to weave.	1998
J	Matthews, Mary	Magid Fasts for Ramadan Magid, an eight-year-old Muslim boy in Cairo, is determined to celebrate Ramadan by fasting, despite the opposition of family members who feel that he is not yet old enough to fast.	1996
J	Nagda, Ann Whitehead	Dear Whiskers Jenny is discouraged when her second grade penpal turns out to be a new student from Saudi Arabia who does not speak English very well, but as she works with her they slowly become friends.	2000
J	Nye, Naomi Shihab	Habibi When fourteen-year-old Liyanne 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.	1997
J	Oppenheim, Shulamith Levey	The Hundredth Name Salah, a boy living in Egypt, wants to lift his camel's sadness. So he prays that the camel will learn Allah's hundredth name, which is unknown to man.	1995
J OSBORN	Osborne, Mary Pope	Season of the Sandstorms Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.	2005
J COMICS GRAPHICS ALIAS	Stamaty, Mark Alan	Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq	2004
J020.92 WINTE	Winter, Jeanette	The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq	2005
J297	Marchant, Kerena	Muslim Festival Tales	2001
J297.18 GANER	Ganeri, Anita	Islamic Stories	2006
J303.48	Dolphin, Laurie	Neve Shalom=Wahat Al-Salam=Oasis of Peace Text and photos present the lives of two boys, one Jewish and one Arab, who attend school in a unique community near Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs live together in peace.	1993
J398.2	Kherdian, David	The Rose's Smile: Farizad of the Arabian Nights Only the courage of the beautiful Farizad is able to bring happiness out of the evil deeds of her mother's two jealous older sisters.	1997
J398.2	Travers, P.L.	Two Pairs of Shoes Retellings of two middle Eastern folktales reveal how two pairs of shoes unwittingly reflect the true character of the men who own them.	1980
J398.2	Van Woerkom, Dorothy	The Friends of Abu Ali: Three More Tales of the Middle East Can a small bag that two gentlemen are fighting over really contain two spotted leopards, the entire city of Baghdad, and three camels?	1978
J398.2	Zagloul, Ahmed	The Black Prince and Other Egyptian Folk Tales	1971
J398.2 JOHNS	Johnson-Davies, Denys	Goha the Wise Fool A collection of fourteen tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Goha, a man with a reputation for being able to answer difficult questions in a clever way.	2005
J398.2 PIROTT	Pirotta, Saviour	The Glass Palace: An Arabian Fairy Tale Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first from the Middle East and the second one from Germany.	2008
J398.20933 SMITH	Smith, Chirs	One City, Two Brothers To settle an inheritance dispute between two brothers, King Solomon tells a tale of how Jerusalem came to be founded.	2007
J398.20955	Wolfson, Margaret Olivia	The Patient Stone: A Persian Love Story A retelling of the traditional Persian tale of how the patient stone helps a mistreated young girl achieve her true destiny.	2001
J398.209567	Hickox, Rebecca	The Golden Sandal: A Middle Eastern Cinderella Story An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.	1998
J398.209567 HENDE	Henderson, Kathy	Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up in a War An ancient Sumerian tale about the youngest and weakest of eight brothers who, caught up in an ill-advised war, uses his wits and courage and eventually becomes king.	2006
J398.21	Kimmel, Eric A.	The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East A princess promises to marry the prince who finds the most precious treasure.	1994
J398.21	Wade, Gini	The Wonderful Bag: An Arabian Tale from the Thousand and One Nights	1993
J641.59 BEHNK	Behnke, Alison	Cooking the Middle Eastern Way	2005
J745.5 HARTM	Hartman, Sarah	Middle Eastern Crafts Kids Can Do!	2006
J909	Haskins, Jim	Count Your Way Through the Arab World Uses Arabic numerals from one to ten to introduce concepts about Arab countries and Arab culture.	1987
J910.92	Rumford, James	Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354	2001
J915.5 GRAHA	Graham, Amy	Iran in the News: Present and Future	2006
J915.6 DAVEN	Davenport, John	A Brief Political and Geographic History of the Middle East:	2008
J915.6 STEEL	Steele, Phillip	The Middle East	2006
J915.8 LAW	Law, Felicia	Atlas of the Southwest and Central Asia Features maps and information about the countries, geography, ecology, population, customs, transportation, and economy of Central and Southwestern Asia.	2008
J956.04 HAMPT	Hampton, Wilborn	War in the Middle East: A Reporter's Story A documentary containing the author's experiences covering these two pivotal wars offering readers a portrait of major world events.	2007
J956.9405 FRANK	Frank, Mitch	Understanding the Holy Land	2005
J962	Morris, Ann	Grandma Hekmatt Remembers: An Arab-American Family Story Three Arab-American girls learn about their family and cultural history from their grandmother, who grew up in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to New Jersey after her marriage. Includes directions for making Egyptian paper boats.	2003
JB SA31S	Stanley, Diane	Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam	2002
JE	Alexander, Sue	Nadia the Willful	1983
JE	Ben-Ezer, Ehud	Hosni the Dreamer: An Arabian Tale 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.	1997
JE	Curtis, Chara	No One Walks on My Father's Moon The first moonwalk prompts a Turkish boy to reconcile scientific discovery with spiritual belief.	1996
JE	da Costa, Deborah	Snow in Jerusalem Although they live in different quarters of Jerusalem, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are surprised to discover they have been caring for the same stray cat.	2001
JE	English, Karen	Nadia's Hands A Pakistani-American girl takes part in her aunt's traditional Pakistani wedding.	1999
JE	Gray, Nigel	A Balloon for Grandad	1988
JE	Heide, Florence Parry	The Day of Ahmed's Secret	1990
JE	Heide, Florence Parry	The House of Wisdom Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.	1999
JE	Hughes, Vi	Aziz the Story Teller Although he wants to please his father and earn money selling carpets, Aziz finds himself drawn to the storytellers in the marketplace, including one who has a special gift meant just for him.	2002
JE KHAN	Khan, Rukhsana	Ruler of the Courtyard After confronting what she believes to be a snake in the bath house, Saba finds the courage to overcome her fear of the chickens in the courtyard.	2003
JE KHAN	Khan, Rukhsana	Silly Chicken In Pakistan, Rani believes that her mother loves their pet chicken Bibi more than she cares for her, until the day that a fluffy chick appears and steals Rani's own affections.	2005
JE KIMME	Kimmel, Eric A.	Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale An original story, based on the Joha tales of the Arabic-speaking world, in which a hapless man finds a wishing stick that brings him nothing but bad luck. Includes an author's note about the history of Joha tales.	2010
JE	Lewin, Betsy	What's the Matter, Habibi? One day, instead of following Ahmed around in a circle giving children rides, Habibi the camel runs through the bazaar with Ahmed following him and trying to figure out what is wrong.	1997
JE	Lewin, Ted	The Storytellers Abdul and Grandfather pass through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and stop at an old gate, where Grandfather performs as a storyteller.	1998
JE	London, Jonathan	Ali, Child of the Desert On a trip to the Moroccan market town of Rissani, Ali becomes separated from his father during a sandstorm.	1997
JE MACDO	MacDonald, Margaret Read	Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! A Palestinian Folktale A childless woman's prayers are answered by the arrival of a talking pot, but the new mother knows that Little Pot must learn right from wrong just like any child.	2006
JE	Marsh, T. F.	The Persian Plot: A Tale About Courage A beautiful chameleon tells the story of courageous Queen Esther and her struggle to save her people.	2001
JE	Matze, Claire Sidhom	The Stars in My Geddoh's Sky Alex's Arabic-speaking grandfather comes to visit the United States, and Alex learns about his grandfather's Middle Eastern homeland.	1999
JE NADIM	Nadimi, Suzan	The Rich Man and the Parrot In this retelling of a tale by Rumi, a parrot tricks a wealthy merchant into setting him free.	2007
JE	Nye, Naomi Shihab	Sitti's Secrets A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.	1994
JE RUMFO	Rumford, James	Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad 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.	2008
JE	Van Woerkom, Dorothy	Abu Ali Counts His Donkeys: A Folktale from the Middle East Abu Ali buys nine donkeys at the fair. But when he stops on the ride home, he can count only eight. Then he counts again and there are nine...Can his friend Musa solve the mystery?	2000

Web Sites

Education World: Teaching about Islam, the Middle East
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/profdev009.shtml

Middle East Teacher's Guide
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/teachers/ttips/032900ttips.html

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