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Zara's Rules for Record-Breaking Fun Kindle Edition

by Hena Khan (Author), Wastana Haikal (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

4.8 26 ratings

Book 1 of 3: Zara's Rules

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From the beloved author of Amina’s Voice comes the first book in a humor-filled middle grade series starring a young Muslim girl with an endless list of hobbies who searches for ways to maximize fun for her family and neighborhood friends.

Meet Zara Saleem, the queen of the neighborhood.

Zara’s in charge of it all: she organizes the games, picks the teams, and makes sure everyone has a good time…and they always do.

When a new family moves in across the street, suddenly Zara’s reign is threatened by Naomi, who has big ideas of her own about how the neighborhood kids can have fun. To get everyone to notice her again, Zara decides she’s going to break a Guinness World Record—if her little brother Zayd doesn’t mess things up.

But when she finds herself increasingly alone in her record-breaking quest, Zara starts to wonder if sharing the crown and making a new friend might end up being the best rule of all.

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For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can't get better than this book.

-- "R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Amina's Song"

About the Author

Hena Khan is a Pakistani American writer. She is the author of the middle grade novels Amina’s Voice, Amina’s Song, More to the Story, Drawing Deena, and the Zara’s Rules series and picture books Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns, Under My Hijab, and It’s Ramadan, Curious George, among others. Hena lives in her hometown of Rockville, Maryland, with her family. You can learn more about Hena and her books by visiting her website at HenaKhan.com or connecting with her @HenaKhanBooks.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09841T7SY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Salaam Reads/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (April 19, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 19, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 19368 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 140 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,367,190 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #392 in Children's Muslim Fiction
- #4,553 in Children's Multigenerational Family Life
- #11,220 in Children's eBooks (Kindle Store)

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Hena Khan is a Pakistani-American who was born and raised in Maryland, where she still lives. She enjoys writing about her culture as well as all sorts of other subjects, from spies to space travel. You can learn more about Hena by visiting her website: www.henakhan.com.

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natasha farouk

awesome book

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2024

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Every Islamic School must have more than one set of these books in their library! These books are so good! I am a librarian and my kids fight over these all the time! They even arrange who is going to get the next one for their next library visit! These books also have AR quizzes, so there is not reason not to add them to your library, home and or school!

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Michael

Super Fun! My kids and I loved this adventure!

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2022

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What a fabulously written and creative book. It reminded me of my days as a child growing up in a neighborhood filled with similar adventures. My kids thoroughly enjoyed the characters and couldn't put the book down. After we all finished reading the book, we talked and laughed about Zara and her friends and all the antics they experienced.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2022

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I bought this book for my grandchildren
I read it before giving it to them. What a lovely book! So much fun! It reminded me of the days when neighborhood kids played outside and were full of imagination!
Very well written !! It had this grandmother smiling throughout

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2022

What a great way to tell the story of a neighborhood. My niece loves this book and I love reading it to her. Thanks writing something that brings people together.

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AmazonShopper

Love the genuine neighborhood setting

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2022

I read this book before giving to my nephew and niece, and I loved the neighborhood author Hena Khan depicts. Friends knocking on each other's doors to go play or bike outside is exactly what I wish for my nephew and niece. I love the story of friends not always getting along seamlessly but figuring ways to work things out together, and the relationship between Zara and her little brother is achingly real.

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Jothebookgirl

The first installment in the adventurous life of Zara.

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2022

This is the first installment in the Zara series. We meet Zara who feels her “Queen of the Neighbourhood '' status is threatened by the new girl in the community, so she sets out to do something about it. Zara’s Muslim family is Pakistan-American

The story opens on Taco Tuesday even though it is really Friday. The family is anxiously anticipating the arrival of the new owners of Mr. Chapman’s home moving in next door.

Zara and the other neighbourhood kids were sad to see their elderly neighbor, friendly Mr. Chapman, move away. The house is sold and a new family is moving in, hopefully with kids, and someone who can tend his beautiful garden.. Zara is the ‘Queen of the Neighborhood,’ so dubbed by Mr. Chapman for the way she organizes games and makes sure everyone plays by the rules. And… Zara is quite attached to her moniker. The new neighbors have two children, Naomi and Michael who will be attending the local Jewish school. Feeling left out when her best friends Gloria and Jade seem to be more interested in setting up a clubhouse with the new girl, Zara decides it may be time to do something on her own for a change. She has been browsing the Guinness Book of World records, so how hard can it be to break a world record? Think again Zara. She Attempts a try at the longest tap-dancing, biggest sidewalk chalk drawing, and most hours spent hula hooping all to end poorly. Zara is beginning to feel increasingly alone in her record-breaking quest and starts to wonder if sharing her Queenship and making a new friend might end up being the best rule of all. In the end, Zara soon realizes it’s more fun to try things out with her friends, even if it means she doesn’t always get to make the rules.

Zara is a completely likeable even though she lets her little brother, Zyad get on her nerves. Her young worries are very relatable for an 11 year old and she has a realistic tween voice. The neighborhood is culturally diverse. Jade and Gloria are Black, and Naomi’s family is Jewish.

Scenes with Zara’s extended Pakistani family include frequent visits from her sweet grandparents and cool uncle, which add family warmth, as well interjected bits of Urdu and cultural references. Sprinkled throughout the book are cute and lively black and white illustrations that enhance the story.

My favorite part was how everyone is so neighborly and the warm community reminded me of where I grew up spending days outdoors with the neighbor kids making up ways to have fun. I know this is a tired issue, but I have to say there is no mention of screen device uses among the kids. Just kids inventing their own fun.

A promising new series for 7-10 year old girls. This is the first instalment due out in April 2022 and Zara’s Rules for a finding Hidden Treasure is due out in a October 2022

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R. Faruqi

Joyful!

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2022

Loved this book!

Zara is a relatable kid who loves drama and rules the neighborhood as the Queen of the Neighborhood. I loved that she was 11 years old making her a great catch for my 11 and 9 year old!

Signature Hena Khan style, the family dynamic is warm and lovely and reading about Zara's family felt like I was reading about my own.

Zara's voice is one you will not want to miss! I loved reading about her attempts to beat a Guinness world record and how she unites the neighborhood through her attempts.

Loved the hula hooping grandmother and illustrations by Wastana Haikal !

I also loved the brother Zayd's series so was excited to get to spend more time with this beautiful family. I also enjoyed reading about Jamal Mamoo who was younger in this series as well!

I can't wait to read the next one. The illustrations are joyful and this book was a treat!