Mitali Perkins
1) Tiger Boy
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel's island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find her before the cub's anxious mother follows suit and endangers them all. Mr. Gupta, a rich newcomer to the island, is also searching-he wants to sell the cub's body parts on the black market. Neel and his sister, Rupa, resolve to find the cub first and bring her back to the reserve where she belongs. The hunt for the cub interrupts Neel's...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Top Ten ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred Reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal
BookPage’s “Top Ten Middle Grade Novels”
A refugee and child soldier challenge the rules of war in this coming-of-age novel set against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers...
Junior Library Guild Selection
Starred Reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal
BookPage’s “Top Ten Middle Grade Novels”
A refugee and child soldier challenge the rules of war in this coming-of-age novel set against the political and military backdrop of modern-day Burma
Bang! A side door bursts open.
Soldiers...
Author
Publisher
Spotify Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis.
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture—for better or worse.
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love...
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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 Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he supposed to figure out what comes next?
Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places-a summer service trip to India to work with survivors of human...
Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in Kolkata, India and is reluctant to take on his future. Since he knows nothing about his past, how is he supposed to figure out what comes next?
Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places-a summer service trip to India to work with survivors of human...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Maria, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, Maria must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.