Samira Ahmed
1) Hollow fires
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
2) Internment
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories.
Smash the patriarchy. Eat all the pastries.
It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam...
Smash the patriarchy. Eat all the pastries.
It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam...
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having returned from Qaf as heroes, Hamza wants one more epic quest before heading back to school. While exploring an abandoned castle, the siblings must face the evil dev Ahriman which is out for revenge and to claim an ancient ring of power, so takes Hamza hostage.