Five hundred years ago, Guru Nanak founded the Sikh faith in India. The Sikhs defied the caste system; rejected the authority of Hindu priests; forbade magic and idolatry; and promoted the equality of men and women — beliefs that incurred the wrath of both Hindus and Muslims. In the centuries that followed, three of Nanak's nine successors met violent ends, and his people continued to battle hostile regimes. The conflict has raged into our own time:...

The book explores the gurus, the scriptures, the philosophy, and the stories and legends. It explains how a faith led to the birth of a historic empire of immense military and political might, maps the emergence of a distinct identity, looks at its impact on the world, and celebrates the contributions of this illustrious community.

Follows a Sikh father and his daughter as they go through their daily hair routine. Every morning Papa combs through his daughter's waves like he does his own--parting it down the middle, using coconut oil to get all the tangles out. Some days he braids her hair in two twists down the side of her face. Other days he weaves it into one long braid hanging down her back. But her favorite style is when he combs her hair in a tight bun on the top of her...

A long-awaited book on the epoch-making events that led to the creation of the Sikh empire and the role played by its founder, Ranjit Singh who inherited his father's misl (or chiefdom) at a very young age, Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) soon made his presence felt. A school dropout who lost sight in his left eye due to a childhood illness, he was truly at home only in the saddle. His military and political genius united the twelve warring Sikh misls,

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"Jeet is new to town and a little lonely. To combat this, he and his mom start volunteering at a local animal shelter. There, Jeet makes a new friend in a happy puppy, Fudge! Jeet's world is about to get a whole lot better. Kids and adults alike will delight in this level 2 emerging reader, the first in a series about a young Sikh boy, his 'yummy' sidekick puppy, and their adventures in volunteerism and play."--

High school debater TJ Powar, after she and her cousin become the subject of an ugly meme, makes a resolution to stop shaving, plucking, and waxing, and prove that she can be her hairy self and still be beautiful... but soon finds this may be her most difficult debate yet.

"In this rhyming, sing-song picture book, author Deepika Pujji describes all the wonderful, empowering adjectives that describe a Sikh girl by way of her long, lustrous hair"--