Amina Banana and the Formula for Friendship

Meet Amina Banana! A third-grade Syrian American girl whose formulas for life don't always add up the way she plans. In this first book in the series, Amina sets out to make her very first friend using a carefully calculated formula, but friendship turns out to be more complicated than math.

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. Perfect for readers of The Questioneers and Junie B. Jones.

• Author: Shifa Saltagi Safadi
• Illustrator: Aaliya Jaleel
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers