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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through letters, aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson about love while directing a movie for the Midsummer Night arts festival, in which her longtime crush and his twin brother are also participating.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Prince Lal is taken to her hometown in New Jersey, Kiranmala must return home to rescue him, but she faces a disturbing prophecy about the coming conflict between good and evil that is being led by her father, the evil Serpent King.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Priya Chakraborty plans a birthday party for her first client, Layla Aunty, personalizing everything from the invitations to the menu in Aunty's favorite color, but as party-time finally arrives, Priya is nervous something will go wrong.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey . . . until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen, determined to eat her alive. Turns out there might be some truth to her parents' fantastical stories-like how Kiranmala is a real Indian princess and how she comes from a secret place not of this world. To complicate...
10) Afterworlds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
11) The best at it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
Author
Series
Party diaries volume 2
Publisher
Branches, Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Priya is hired to do a henna night for a teenage party, she and her friend Melissa are worried their ideas might be too babyish for the older girls.
Author
Series
Party diaries volume 3
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.
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...
16) Raking leaves
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Meera helps her parents rake all the colorful leaves that have fallen from the trees. Pairs with the nonfiction title Trees in Fall.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"--
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya come to terms with her own lukewarm practice of the faith and her embarrassment over others' reactions to their beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A biracial Indian/Caucasian girl is nervous to begin middle school, especially since her mother is now the breadwinner of the family, her best friend may no longer be a bestie, and the appearance of the seventeen hairs over her lip that form a very unwanted mustache"--
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Months after Kiranmala's adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, a vision of the Demon Queen starts showing up in her bedroom, trying to tell Kiran something, but getting cutoff before she can finish; then she starts seeing an advertisement for an archery contest on her family's interdimensional television and Kiran realizes that she must return to her place of birth--where society is falling apart, a reality show is taking over, her friends are in danger,...
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