Children's Book Suggestions | Middle Eastern & North African Heritage Month 2026

Celebrate Middle Eastern & North African Heritage (MENA) Month with these books published in 2025. For more book ideas, check out our MENA lists from 2025 and 2024 (picture books and chapter books) or browse the library catalog for books about the Middle East, Arab culture, Muslims, and specific regions (like Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine).

Updated January 30, 2026
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Oregon City Public Library
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Children's Book Suggestions | Middle Eastern & North African Heritage Month 2026

Celebrate Middle Eastern & North African Heritage (MENA) Month with these books published in 2025. For more book ideas, check out our MENA lists from 2025 and 2024 (picture books and chapter books) or browse the library catalog for books about the Middle East, Arab culture, Muslims, and specific regions (like Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine).

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Hilwa's gifts
Suleiman, Safa
Paper Book
"Combining a centuries-old practice with the story about a Palestinian family and their relationship to the land make Hilwa's Gifts an absolute treasure." --Booklist (starred review) A heartwarming picture-book debut brings a tradition many thousands of years old-...

Picture Book (Age 4-8)

Amina Banana and the formula for friendship
Safadi, Shifa Saltagi
Meet Amina Banana! She's a determined and clever third grader, and star of a new chapter book series with a STEM twist. Perfect for readers of The Questioneers and Junie B. Jones! Amina loves bananas, science, and all things yellow! Her family recently arrived from Syria to...

Bridging Fiction (Grades 2-4)

The treasure of Ocean Parkway
Tash, Sarvenaz
Two podcasting sleuths help their neighbor solve a cold case--one that's literally etched into the walls of their Brooklyn apartment building--in this cozy, twisty-turny middle grade whodunnit from the author of The Queen of Ocean Parkway. Twelve-year-old globetrotter Thea...

Children's Fiction (Grades 3-5)

Almost sunset
Algarmi, Wahab
Paper Book
In a contemporary middle grade graphic novel debut that Gene Luen Yang calls "funny, endearing, and an intimate look at a Muslim family," Almost Sunset follows a young Muslim American boy during Ramadan as he finds the balance between his family traditions and his secular middle school life....

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

Say something, Poupeh Babaee!
Massey, Haleh
Moving to a new country is hard enough, especially when you have to do it alone during a national travel ban. When the pressures of a new school, a new language, and new bullies leaves Poupeh selectively mute, she struggles to find her voice which leaves her family pleading "Say something, Poupeh...

Children's Graphic Novel (Grades 3-5)

The teacher of nomad land : a World War II story
Nayeri, Daniel
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Page-turning WW2 hidden history masterfully told by award winner Daniel Nayeri 1941. The German armies are storming across Europe. Iran is a neutral country occupied by British forces on one side,...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

Wish I was a baller
Shah, Amar (Screenwriter)
Wish I Was a Baller is part New Kid, part The Tryout, and part Dragon Hoops! Amar Shah has some story to tell! In 1995, he was a fourteen-year-old aspiring sports journalist (and basketball superfan) angling to get into an Orlando Magic team practice. He did, and it...

Young Teen Fiction (Grades 5-7)

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