You Can Do It, Yasmin!

By Saadia Faruqi and Hatem Aly

A collection of four more stories featuring Yasmin! Whether she's braving the goalie net for the first time on the soccer field, trouble-shooting a plant problem in the garden with her family, tackling a tricky writing assignment, or managing a disagreement with her friends, Yasmin is always thinking outside the box to come up with creative solutions. Yasmin can do it!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781515873105

Saadia Faruqi

Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American writer, interfaith activist, and cultural-sensitivity trainer. She is the author of the children’s early-reader series Yasmin and the middle grade novels A Thousand Questions, Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero, and The Partition Project and the coauthor of the middle grade novel A Place at the Table as well as The Wonders We Seek: Thirty Incredible Muslims Who Helped Shape the World. She was profiled in O magazine as a woman making a difference in her community and serves as editor in chief of Blue Minaret, a magazine for Muslim art, poetry, and prose. She resides in Houston, Texas, with her family.

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To Mariam for inspiring me, and Mubashir for helping me find the right words —S.F.

To my sister, Eman, and her amazing girls, Jana and Kenzi —H.A.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication Page

Yasmin the Soccer Star

Chapter 1: A New Coach

Chapter 2: Excuses

Chapter 3: The Goalkeeper

Yasmin the Gardener

Chapter 1: Spring Is Here

Chapter 2: Planting Seeds

Chapter 3: Too Hot

Yasmin the Writer

Chapter 1: The Assignment

Chapter 2: Thinking Hard

Chapter 3: A Hero to the Rescue

Yasmin the Friend

Chapter 1: Guests

Chapter 2: A Fight Between Friends

Chapter 3: A New Game

Think About It, Talk About It

Learn Urdu with Yasmin!

Pakistani Fun Facts

Make Your Own Writing Journal

About the Author

About the Illustrator

Copyright

Back Cover

CHAPTER 1

A New Coach

It was time for gym class. Principal Nguyen had some news.

Students, we have a new gym teacher, he said. "Please welcome Coach