Saadia Faruqi

With her eighth birthday coming up, Marya claims she is having an epic henna party, so now she must convince her family to make it happen and work to pull it off, but everything Marya does seems to end in disaster.

"Yusuf is excited to start middle school in his small Texas town, but with the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks coming up, suddenly it feels like the country's same anger and grief is all focused on his Muslim community"--

"Sara and Elizabeth could not be more different. Sara doesn't know anyone in their huge middle school, which is completely unlike the small Islamic academy she's gone to her entire life. Elizabeth has her own problems: her best friend is ditching her for the sixth-grade cupcake queen, and her British mother is sad all the time. When the two are thrown together for an afterschool cooking class, they don't exactly hit it off. But then they find that...

"Yasmin's family is hosting a big party, but Yasmin is worried that the traditional food her family is cooking is too spicy--so her family challenges Yasmin to come up with a dish of her own." --

Yasmin gathers a cape and mask and sets out to find a villain to defeat with her "super powers"--however there are no villains hiding on her block, just neighbors who need a little help.

"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...

While her parents are out to dinner, a bored Yasmin decides to try on some of her mother's clothes, including her new shalwar kameez, which gets ripped--but with the help of Nana, Nani, and a glue-gun, the garment gets fixed, and Yasmin puts on an impromptu fashion show when her parents get home.

As their makerspace project the students in Yasmin's second grade class are building a city: there are houses, a school, a church, even a castle, but Yasmin is not sure what to build--until inspiration strikes.

"In this collection of four stories, Yasmin takes charge of some sticky situations! At home, at school, or out and about, Yasmin faces challenges head on with creativity and quick thinking. Whether she's creating a new recipe, finding a way to rescue a stuck toy for a little friend, or calming down monkeys (and classmates!), a clever solution to any problem is just around the corner!"--Amazon.com.

Must Love Pets has a new job: pet sitting three adorable kittens. What Imaan, London, and Olivia don't expect is all the trouble these tiny creatures can get into, from climbing the curtains, to crawling on kitchen counters, and spilling baking supplies everywhere. To get out of the house--and out of Mama's hair--the girls take the kittens to a local farmers' market. There, they meet the world's cutest goat, and the kittens have a ball. At the end...