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Nina Soni volume 3
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English
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During Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, Nina dreams up a garden-related business but soon learns about all the responsibilities that come with such an effort.
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Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Binny's class is learning about different holiday traditions, and today it is time for Binny to share the story of her favorite holiday, Diwali, the Festival of Lights--and she even has some special treats to give her classmates. Includes information on the five days of Diwali, what it commemorates, and its special traditions.
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English
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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...
7) Vanished
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Neela must solve the mystery when her beautiful, but cursed, veena, a classical Indian musical instrument, goes missing.
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Anjali and her friends are excited to buy matching personalized license plates for their bikes--but Anjali can't find a plate with her name. She is often teased about her "different" name, and this is the last straw. Anjali is so upset that she demands her parents let her pick a new name! When they refuse, Anjali decides to take a closer look at who she is--beyond her name--and why being different means being marvelous.
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Series
Magic ponies volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Preeti Namesh is snowed in, so she thinks it's going to be the most boring vacation ever, until magical pony Comet shows up"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©[2020]
Language
English
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2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grade 4
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Elementary
Asian and Pasifika Voices: Books for Middle Grade
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As the only Indian American kid in her small town, Lekha Divekar feels like she has two versions of herself: Home Lekha, who loves watching Bollywood movies and eating Indian food, and School Lekha, who pins her hair over her bindi birthmark and avoids confrontation at all costs, especially when someone teases her for being Indian. When a girl Lekha's age moves in across the street, Lekha is excited to hear that her name is Avantika and she's Desi,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.
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...
12) American desi
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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An American child of East Asian descent revels in dances, clothing, games, foods and other characteristics of both cultures, while blending them into what makes this American desi unique.
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Sejal Sinha volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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When a storm threatens Diwali celebrations, eight-year-old Sejal Sinha, a spunky Indian-American girl with an active imagination, tries to use science to save her family's beloved holiday.
15) Bindu's Bindis
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Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This charming picture book is about a little girl who loves her bindis (and the many creative shapes they come in!). The bindis are also a connection to her Nani who lives in India. When Nani comes to visit Bindu and brings the bindis to her, it is just in time to wear something new to the school talent show. Bindu and Nani work together to shine their brightest and embrace their sparkle, even when they stand out from the crowd."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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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
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Un alegre libro infantil ilustrado de positividad corporal sobre el camino de una niña india-americana para aceptar su vello corporal y celebrar su herencia después de que se burlaran de ella por su bigote.
After Laxmi's friend Zoe points out the hairs on her lip, Laxmi is very self-conscious until her East Indian parents help her to accept and celebrate her appearance.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bee wanted to spend the summer reading Betsy Chillers books and exploring the new spooky theme park with her best friend. Instead, she's spending the summer trapped at Storm Lake with her too loud, too thrifty, and too Indian family. Luckily, Bee finds a place to escape her embarrassment - a magical house across the lake that transforms her into the cool girl she always wanted to be. Maybe cottage life isn't so bad after all! But strange dreams are...
19) The chaos curse
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Prince Lal has been spirited away to, of all places, Parsippany, so Kiranmala must leave the the Kingdom Beyond and return home to rescue him; but reality seems to be wavering around her because something is causing a dangerous disruption in the multiverse, and she must face the disturbing prophecy about her own role in the approaching conflict between good and evil--not to mention her own growing feelings for Prince Neel.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in.
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