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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
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Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
3) Tiger boy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Month Picture Books
Children's Special Topics: Diwali and Indian Culture
Children's Special Topics: Diwali and Indian Culture
Description
"Two families flee extreme weather in India and come together on a mountaintop"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In India in the 1940s, twelve-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Gandhi's social and political reforms.
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