Perkins, Mitali
Summary: When María, Juan, and their mother go to the border between California and Mexico to visit their grandmother at Christmas, María must devise a way to get Juan's gift over the fence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JE PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: 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 to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: "A lyrical exploration of the relationship between the natural elements, humanity, and God"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beaming Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PERPerkins, Mitali
Summary: Immigrating to America, a young girl navigates between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PERSummary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013