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1) Sold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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All Together Now - Ages 12-18
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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Description
"Readers will be captivated by this beautifully written novel about young people who must use their instincts and grit to survive. Padma shares with us an unflinching peek into the reality millions of homeless children live every day but also infuses her story with hope and bravery that will inspire readers and stay with them long after turning the final page."--Aisha Saeed, author of the New York Times Bestselling Amal Unbound. Four determined homeless...
3) 5 to 1
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"In a dystopian future where gender selection has led to girls outnumbering boys 5 to 1 marriage is arranged based on a series of tests. It's Sudasa's turn to pick a husband through this 'fair' method, but she's not sure she wants to be a part of it"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
While exploring her grandmother's past at an ashram in India with her cousin Anandi, seventeen-year-old Raya finds herself and, perhaps, true love in this modern retelling of the legend of Dushyanta and Shakuntala.
Author
Series
Publisher
Splinter / Sterling Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[[2012-] 2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
10) I kick and I fly
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is an inspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sex trade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the value of her body through kung fu. On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father...
11) Homeless bird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Series
Jungle book (Easy reader classics) volume 2
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" during which a very curious mongoose is blamed for the misbehavior of a snake.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
In these tales inspired by traditional Indian folktales, Prince Veera and his best friend Suku are given the opportunity to preside over the court of his father, King Bheema. Some of the subjects' complaints are easy to address, but others are much more challenging. How should they handle the case of the merchant who wants to charge people for enjoying the smells of his sweets? Or settle the dispute between a man who sells a well to a neighbor, but...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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AANHPI Heritage Month for Kids
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Description
A young girl explores the vibrant rainbow of items for sale in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her mother. Includes facts about the items mentioned and markets around the world, as well as photographs taken by the author in her hometown of Chennai, India.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When Jyoti visits her grandmother halfway around the world, she is overwhelmed by the differences between India and home. At first she feels lonely and out of place, but soon, despite a language barrier, she and Sita Pati are able to understand each other. They form a bond--looking at books together, making designs with colored sand, shopping at the market, playing games, eating chapatis, and sipping warm milk with saffron to bring sweet dreams....
18) Chaiwala!
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When their train makes a ten-minute stop at the station in Jaipur, a young girl and her mother hurry to get in line for a cup of chai. The girl orders two cups, and then delights in watching the chaiwala at work--grinding the spices, adding scoops of tea leaves and sugar to the bubbling, boiling milk, then cooling the chai by pouring it from high, back and forth, back and forth--the girl is mesmerized. With a biscuit and a rusk added to their order,...
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