# Grounded

**Author:** Aisha Saeed, S.K. Ali, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow & Huda Al-Marashi
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 255
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781647006693`
**ISBN-10:** `1647006694`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/grounded-airport
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Four Muslim kids, strangers to one another, are stranded together at a snowed-in airport and team up to track down a missing therapy cat — forging an unlikely friendship along the way. A warm, funny novel told in four voices. Nominated for the 2026 Sasquatch Book Award (grades 4-8), the Washington Library Association's statewide young-readers' choice award.

## Themes

- friendship
- identity
- adventure

## Where this book is assigned

### Washington Sasquatch Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Washington — [source: 2026 Sasquatch Book Award Nominees (Washington Library Association)](https://www.wla.org/2026-sasquatch-nominees)

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