Book Description
for I Am the Night Sky by Next Wave Muslim Initiative Writers
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
A diverse collection of poetry, essays, stories, and artwork by Muslim American teens living in the Washington, D. C. area celebrates their creativity, dreams, beliefs, and cultures. Here are poems about the beauty of prayer; a script for a television show starring four Muslim superheroes; meditations on identity, fasting, and wearing hijab. Expressive, multimedia self-portraits of the contributors appear throughout. Many pieces touch on the pain of being misunderstood, vilified, or feared; yet the focus is on the strength and resilience of those who practice Islam. The diverse voices in this collection exude pride as they affirm their identities as Muslim, American, Arab, Asian, Black, multiracial and more with grace, heart, and often humor, too. (Age 12 and older)
CCBC Choices 2020. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020. Used with permission.