Iranian/Iranian American
A Copycat Conundrum (The Misfits #2)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Mystery, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Natural Disaster/Climate Change, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, STEM
A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits #1)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Animals, Cross-Group Friendship, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Mystery, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, STEM, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend, Welcoming by School
A Sea Monster Conundrum (The Misfits #3)
Age 08 or older
Themes: Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Genre: Action Adventure, Genre: Mystery, Identity: Exploration, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, STEM
A Suitcase Full: A Story of Starting New and Carrying Home in Your Heart
Age 05 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Language Ability, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multilingual, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Home Country, Welcoming by Community, Welcoming by School
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Dating, Discrimination: Religious, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim
A Whole Song and Dance
Age 12 or older
Themes: Arts, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generational Differences, Identity: Multilingual, LGBTQIA+
A Year of Celebraciones
Age 05 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Lunar New Year, Celebrations: New Years, Celebrations: Nowruz, Celebrations: Odunde, Celebrations: Rosh Hashanah, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Multilingual: Spanish Featured Words, Religious Background: Jewish, Welcoming by Community, Welcoming by School
Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Separation: On Journey, Format: Graphic Novel, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict
Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
Age 15 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Citizenship, Family Relationship: Parents, Family Relationship: Siblings, Immigrant: Undocumented
An Emotion of Great Delight
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Racial, Discrimination: Religious, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
An Impossible Thing to Say
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Microaggression, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Novel In Verse, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Farsi Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
An Invisible River to Cross
Age 04 or older
Themes: Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Education & Literacy, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual, Welcoming by School
Azadi Means Freedom: Fighting for Gender Equity Through the World’s Most Popular Game
Age 14 or older
Themes: Activism, Canadian Connection, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Gender and Sexual, Family Relationship: Siblings, Genre: Nonfiction, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country, Sports
Azar on Fire
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Arts, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Baba’s Gift: A Persian Father’s Love of Family
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Parents, Immigrant: Education, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Babajoon’s Treasure
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Bird of a Thousand Stories (Once There Was #2)
Age 10 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Animals, Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Genre: Fantasy & Folklore, Genre: Mystery, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Trauma & Healing, Trauma & Healing: Death of Family or Friend
Carry On: Poetry by Young Immigrants
Age 09 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Canadian Connection, Genre: Nonfiction, Genre: Poetry, Immigrant: Economic, Immigrant: Education, Immigrant: Religious Freedom, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Celebrate Nowruz!: A Persian New Year Holiday to Honor Spring
Age 04 or older
Themes: Celebrations, Celebrations: Nowruz, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Storytelling, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Multilingual: Farsi Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Zoroastrian
Come on In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home
Age 12 or older
Themes: Discrimination: Racial, Event: MCSTOYA Connects: Migration Reads, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Anthology, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multiracial, Immigrant: Economic, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim, Setting: Home Country
Darius the Great Deserves Better
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multiracial, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Age 12 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Friendship, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Identity: Multiracial, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Setting: Home Country
Dear New Friend
Age 04 or older
Themes: Arts, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Celebrations & Traditions, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Generation: 2nd, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual
Everything Is New
Age 05 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Mental Health, Outdoor Exploration, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual
Everything Sad is Untrue
Age 10 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Racial, Format: Audiobook, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee Journey, Refugee: Persecution, Religious Background: Muslim, Setting: Refugee Camp
Finding Kurdistan: A Kurdish Iranian American’s Journey Home
Age 16 or older
Themes: Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Refugee: Persecution, Refugee: War/Conflict, Setting: Home Country
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Age 18 or older
Themes: Coming of Age, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Family Relationship: Extended, Family Relationship: Parents, Genre: Biography, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Names & Pronunciations, Immigrant: Economic, Multilingual: Farsi Featured Words, Own Voices/Lived Experience
Game On
Age 08 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Friendship, Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Identity, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Language Ability, Discrimination: Microaggression, Family Relationship: Parents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Body Image, Identity: Multilingual, Identity: Multiracial, Multilingual: Farsi Featured Words, STEM
Grandpa is Here!
Age 04 or older
Themes: Cultural Empowerment, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Family, Cultural Empowerment & Joy: Food, Family Relationship: Grandparents, Generation: 1st, Generational Differences: Language, Identity: Multiracial, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual
Here to Stay
Age 13 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Cross-Group Friendship, Discrimination: Racial, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generation: 1st, Generation: 2nd, Own Voices/Lived Experience
How It All Blew Up
Age 14 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Cross-Group Dating, Detention & Deportation, Discrimination: Cultural, Discrimination: Religious, Family Relationship: Parents, Format: Audiobook, Generational Differences: Dating, LGBTQIA+, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Religious Background: Muslim
I Miss You I Hate This
Age 14 or older
Themes: Accolades & Awards, Accolades & Awards: Starred Review, Coming of Age, Cross-Group Dating, Cross-Group Friendship, Generation: 2nd, Identity: Multilingual, Mental Health, Own Voices/Lived Experience, Welcoming by Individual