CANCELLED: Nonfiction Book Club: Grade 8 and up

Join us for books, snacks, and fun! This book club is for teens going into grades 8 and up. This month, we'll be reading Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh.

The book club meets in room 122.

"At nine years old, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That same year, she heard her first racial slur. At thirteen, her family took a trip to her father’s native homeland of Jordan, and Amani experienced firsthand a culture built on the true peaceful nature of Islam in its purest form, not the Islamic stereotypes she heard on the news. Inspired by her trip and after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was marginalized during a time when it seemed all Western media could talk about was, ironically, Muslim women, Amani created a website called Muslim Girl. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism."