Sadiq

Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.

Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.

Fun-loving third grader Sadiq and his friends join his school librarian's building club. Together, inspired by their neighborhood flooding, they build a model city designed to survive a natural disaster. Includes illustrated activities for young readers.

Sadiq's big sister, Aliya, was recently cast in a community theater musical, and when Sadiq and his friends hear her practicing, they decide to put on their own play for their friends and family. Sadiq volunteers to be the director, but when he makes decisions without his friends' input, everyone starts to get annoyed. Can they resolve their issues before the big performance?

Third-grader Sadiq worries his friendship with Manny will be destroyed when they both decide to run for student government president.

Sadiq, a third-grade Somali American student, and his class visit a pond on a nature field trip and find fish dead from pollution there. Sadiq and his friends create the Clean Water Crew to clean up the pond and other bodies of water.