Naomi Shihab Nye Books In Order

Novels

  1. Habibi (1997)
  2. Going Going (2005)
  3. The Turtle of Oman (2014)
  4. The Turtle of Michigan (2022)

Collections

  1. What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011)
  2. There Is No Long Distance Now (2011)

Chapbooks

  1. Mint (1991)

Picture Books

  1. Sitti’s Secrets (1994)
  2. Benito’s Dream Bottle (1995)
  3. Lullaby Raft (1997)
  4. Baby Radar (2003)
  5. Famous (2015)

Anthologies edited

  1. Tree Is Older Than You Are (1995)
  2. This Same Sky (1996)
  3. The Space Between Our Footsteps (1998)
  4. What Have You Lost? (1999)
  5. Salting the Ocean (2000)
  6. The Flag of Childhood (2002)
  7. Is This Forever, Or What? (2004)
  8. Time You Let Me in (2010)

Non fiction

  1. Between Heaven and Texas (2006)
  2. I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Ok? (2007)

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Naomi Shihab Nye Books Overview

Habibi

Fourteen year old Liyana Abboud would rather not have to change her life…
especially now that she has been kissed, for the very first time and quite by surprise, by a boy named Jackson.

But when her parents announce that Liyana’s family is moving from St. Louis, Missouri, to Jerusalem to the land where her father was born Liyana’s whole world shifts.

What does Jerusalem hold for Liyana? A grandmother, a Sitti, she has never met, for one. A history much bigger than she is. Visits to the West Bank village where her aunts and uncles live. Mischief. Old stone streets that wind through time and trouble. Opening doors, dark jail cells, a new feeling for peace, and Omer…
the intriguing stranger whose kisses replace the one she lost when she moved across the ocean.

Going Going

Florrie’s favorite coffee shop, with its open mike night, dreamy candles, and cute waiters…
Going?

The mysterious little hut selling fresh lemon ice on the west side of town…
Going?

The boutique featuring clothes you don’t find at the mall, allowing you to look like…
an interesting person…
Going?

Individuality. Originality. Quality.

Independence. Opportunity.

Going, going, gone.

What’s a girl to do?

What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur

A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugeesWith contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring, creepy, and oft times funny short stories and poems all linked by the universal power of a wish the abstract things we all wish for home, family, safety and love. From the exchange of letters between two girls who have never met but are both struggling with the unexpected curves of life, to the stunning sacrifice one dying girl makes for another, to the mermaid who trades her tail for legs, to the boy who unwittingly steals an imp’s house, and to the chilling retelling of Cinderella, What You Wish For brings together a potent international roster of authors of note to remember and celebrate the Darfuri refugees and their incredible story of survival and hope.

Sitti’s Secrets

When Sitti, an American girl, goes to visit her grandmother in her small Middle Eastern village on the other side of the world, they don’t need words to understand each other’s heart. ‘A thoughtful, loving affirmation of the bonds that transcend language barriers, time zones, and national borders.’ School Library Journal. Full color.

Lullaby Raft

In a a wonderous bedtime tale for young children, a little child, a chicken, a lizard, and a turtle say good night to their quiet town and begin their adventure in the world of dreams on the Lullaby Raft.’

Baby Radar

Out! Out! Into the world on wheels! What will you see? Everything! Who will you meet? Everybody! What will you smell from way down there? Lots! What will you find? Things that are: soft, wet, furry, sweet. How will you feel? Fast. Slow. Small. Big. Alive. Come out, out into the world on wheels…
until it’s time to come home again.

Tree Is Older Than You Are

This gathering of poems and stories, told in both the original Spanish and translated English, transcends borders as it invites readers into a shared world of ideas, visions and dreams. Sixty four great Mexican writers and painters are collected here, including Rosario Castellanos, Alberta Blanco, Octavio Paz, and Julio Galan.

This Same Sky

An award winning multicultural compilation of poetry introduces more than 125 poems from sixty eight countries around the world, many translated into English for the first time, and offers glimpses of similarities across people despite cultural differences. H. VY. AB.

The Space Between Our Footsteps

In an unparalleled collection, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye brings together the work of over 120 poets and artists from 19 countries in the Middle East. In turn compelling, lyrical, tragic and humorous, this rich anthology opens the door to the Middle East and beckons readers to explore our common ground. Full color illustrations.

What Have You Lost?

What Have You Lost?? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?Each NightImages,dream news,fragments,flashthen fade. These darkened walls. Here, I say. Climb intothis story. Be remembered!Jay Bremyer 00 01 Tayshas High School Reading List Notable Children’s Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults ALA, 00 Riverbank Review Magazine’s Children’s Books of Distinction Award Nominations, Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and 01 Riverbank Review Magazine’s Children’s Books of Distinction Award Nominations

Salting the Ocean

Jerry Middlebrook, Mary Gutierrez, Robyn Rutland, Sandra Scherbenske, Jason Witherspoon, Austin Stoker, Spring Odiorne, Alison Sagebiel, Alfonso Vargas…
There are 100 poems in this book by 100 poets who wrote their poems when they were in grades one through twelve. These poets are not famous. You have not read their poems before. These poets live anywhere. They are now dentists and dancers and teachers and students and construction workers. They write with fire. They could be you.

The Flag of Childhood

In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually meet only on the nightly news. What we see when we look through these windows is the love of family, friends, and for the Earth, the daily occurrences of life that touch us forever, the longing for a sense of place. What we learn is that beneath the veil of stereotypes, our human connections are stronger than our cultural differences.

Is This Forever, Or What?

Texas. The state line stretches for 2,842 miles. There are coasts and mountains and rivers and lakes and cities and towns and disappearing towns and fields of wildflowers and hills and wide open places. The state of mind has no borders. And the 140 Texans in this book are about to show you why.

Time You Let Me in

They are inspiring talented stunning remarkable wise They are also fearless depressed hilarious impatient in love out of love pissed off And they want you to let them in.

Between Heaven and Texas

Between Heaven and Texas, there’s a sky that goes on forever. On cloudless mornings after a norther has blown through, the sky is such a perfect cobalt blue that you forget the ‘between’ and know that heaven is Texas, or Texas is heaven it doesn’t really matter which. But most days there are clouds between Texas and heaven puffy white clouds that set us dreaming on lazy summer days or roiling storm clouds that unleash lightning, tornadoes, and hail. The sky Between Heaven and Texas is a stage for drama more often than not, just like the lives we live below it. Perhaps that’s why we’re always looking up. In this beautiful book, noted photographer Wyman Meinzer revisits the place that inspires his most creative work the Texas sky. His photographs capture the vast dramas that occur Between Heaven and Texas rainstorms that blot out mountain ranges, lightning strikes that dazzle a night black prairie, trains of clouds that rumble for miles over wheat fields, sunsets that lave the whole wide sky in crimson, gold, and pink. Meinzer’s striking images reveal that in the sky above, no less than on the land below, endless variety is commonplace in Texas. Joining Meinzer in this celebration of the Texas sky are two fine writers, Sarah Bird and Naomi Shihab Nye. In her wonderfully personal introduction, Sarah Bird describes growing up as a dedicated cloud watcher who, after several years among the cotton candy clouds and cool fogs of Japan, was shocked and exhilarated by the limitless hot skies of Texas. Naomi Nye has chosen poems by twenty six Texas poets, including herself, which explore a spectrum of emotion about the sky above Texas and the weather in our lives beneath it. Together, photographs, memoir, and poems create a lasting connection with the power and presence of what Meinzer calls ‘that vast frontier and ocean above’ the sky Between Heaven and Texas.

I’ll Ask You Three Times, Are You Ok?

‘I am a poet,’ I said. ‘It is my destiny to do strange things.’ My father gripped the wheel of his car. ‘I am the chauffeur for foolishness.’ We said no more. Foolhardy missions. Life altering conversations. Gifts given and received. Loss. Getting lost. Wisdom delivered before dawn and deep into the night. Love and kissing not necessarily in that order. Laughter. Rides on the edge. Roses. Ghosts. As a traveling poet and visiting teacher, Naomi Shihab Nye has spent a considerable amount of time in cars, both driving and being driven. Her observations, stories, encounters, and escapades and the kernels of truth she gathers from them are laugh out loud funny, deeply moving, and unforgettable. Buckle up.

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