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(0)Mitali Perkins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Five girls. Three generations. One great American love story. You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for better or worse. Ranee, worried that her children are losing their Indian culture; Sonia, wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair; Tara, seeking the limelight to hide her true self; Shanti, desperately trying to make peace in the family; Anna, fighting to preserve Bengal...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When her grandparents come for a visit from India to California, thirteen-year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself and her friends.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's nearly Christmas in California. María and her little brother, Juan, are headed south to the border with Mexico to visit their grandmother. They are excited to celebrate Las Posadas with her, honoring Mary and Joseph's journey to the inn at Bethlehem. María has knitted Abuela a scarf, and Juan has drawn her a picture. But when Juan's gift won't fit through the tiny spaces in the border fence - barely big enough for little fingers to touch...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Join award-winning author Mitali Perkins as she explores the promise of seven timeless children's novels for adults living in uncertain times. Through works by Louisa May Alcott, C. S. Lewis, L. M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and other literary uncles and aunts, Perkins unpacks wisdom to help us thrive.
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives-- but it's never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope...
8) Tiger boy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
A tiger cub has escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
You can't rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. Katina King is the reigning teen jiu-jitsu champion of Northern California, but she's having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this lyrical retelling of the Nativity story, Little Star is nervous when Maker announces that Holy Night is coming. But Maker's gentle encouragement, the shining example of other stars and planets, and the appearance of a very special Baby help her realize that change doesn't have to be bad or scary, and that Maker is always the same"--
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
