Ibtihaj Muhammad
Author
Language
English
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2024 Spring Family Story Time Books
AAPI Picture Books
Diversity Picture Books
Islamic Heritage - Picture Books
AAPI Picture Books
Diversity Picture Books
Islamic Heritage - Picture Books
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Description
Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Named one of TIME 's 100 Most Influential People The first female Muslim American to medal at the Olympic Games. The first woman in hijab to compete for the United States in the Olympics. Growing up in New Jersey as the only African American Muslim in hijab in town, at school, and on the playing fields, Ibtihaj Muhammad always had to find her own way. When she discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy and white, once again...