The titles with reviews are noted with an asterisk (*). Some titles are recommended with a caveat. At the end of this page, we provide a list of titles on this theme, with reviews, that we do not recommend.
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Eleven Words for Love: A Journey Through Arabic Expressions of Love *
By Randa Abdel-Fattah and Maxine Beneba Clarke (Illustrator)
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine
By Hannah Moushabeck and Reem Madooh (Illustrator)
From Prism: Palestinian authors grapple with a wave of censorship
Illustrators Notebook
By Mohieddin Ellabbad
The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
By Jeanette Winter
Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers
By Uma Mishra-Newbery, Lina Al-Hathloul, and Rebecca Green (Illustrator)
Memory Garden
By Zohreh Ghahremani and Susie Ghahremani (Illustrator)
My Fathers Shop Morocco
By Satomi Ichikawa
Nour's Secret Library
By Wafa' Tarnowska and Vali Mintzi (Illustrator)
Olive Harvest in Palestine: A Story of Childhood Memories
By Wafa Shami and Shaima Farouki (Illustrator)
Oranges in No Man's Land
By Elizabeth Laird
P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book
By Golbarg Bashi (Illustrator), Golrokh Nafisi (Editor), Kourosh Beigpour (Editor)
Ten Ways to Hear Snow
By Cathy Camper and Kenard Pak (Illustrator)
Spanish edition available: Diez maneras de escuchar la nieve
Iraqigirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
By Iraqigirl
The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan
By Salma Hussain
Sugar Comes from Arabic: A Beginners Guide to Arabic Letters and Words
By Barbara Whitesides
We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition
By Reem Kassis and Noha Eilouti (Illustrator)
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba
Edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro
A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art & the Fight Against Censorship *
By Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village
By Jody Sokolower, foreword by Nick Estes
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation
Edited by Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke
Free Curriculum Download
Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine
By Mohammad Sabaaneh
Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance
By Shourideh C. Molavi
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By Angela Y. Davis, preface by Cornel West
Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women
By Shoal Collective
Free download on publisher website: Shoal Collective - Our Publications
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
Edited by Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze, and Jehad Abusalim
My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
By Sami Hermez with Sireen Sawalha
Night Counter
By Alia Yunis
Orientalism
By Edward W. Said
Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home
Edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh
The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know about Each Other
By Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson
Born Palestinian, Born Black & the Gaza Suite
By Suheir Hammad
The Butterfly's Burden
By Mahmoud Darwish, Fady Joudah (Translator)
The Flag of Childhood: Poems from the Middle East
Edited by Naomi Shihab Nye
Review on Rethinking Schools
Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab-American Poetry
Edited by Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa
Not Recommended
- Sharing Our Homeland: Palestinian and Jewish Children at Summer Peace Camp by Trish Marx (To learn more, see: Erasure of Palestinians in English-Language Children's Books)
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