Recommended reading books for primary and secondary aged children in the UK
S.K. Ali writes the characters and stories she did not see growing up. Her debut novel, Saints and Misfits, was published on 13 June 2017. That book was a finalist for the American Library Association’s 2018 William C. Morris Award and won the APALA Honor Award and the Middle East Book Honor Award. She later wrote Love from A to Z, and she co-edited Once Upon an Eid with Aisha Saeed; Once Upon an Eid was published on 5 May 2020.
Ali returned to Janna Yusuf’s story in Misfit in Love, published on 25 May 2021. She also added The Eid Gift to the Love from A to Z storyline on 12 May 2021. In 2022 she published Love from Mecca to Medina, a sequel to Love from A to Z, on 18 October 2022. Her novel Fledgling opened The Keeper’s Records of Revolution duology, and that book became a Canadian Children’s Book Centre finalist.
Eid and Ramadan books for children and teens with titles by Sufiya Ahmed, Hiba Noor Khan, Na’ima B. Robert, Zanib Mian, Hena Khan, Adiba Jaigirdar, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Randa Abdel-Fattah, S. K. Ali, and Aya Khalil.
Islam books for children and teens with titles by Ibtihaj Muhammad, Hiba Noor Khan, Zanib Mian, Adiba Jaigirdar, S. K. Ali, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Muhammad Khan, Samira Ahmed, Tahereh Mafi, and Sabaa Tahir.
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