CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 10, 2004
"As with Bend It Like Beckham, which Dhami novelized so well, this features charmingly spunky every-girl characters to love and good storytelling to cheer. (Fiction. 10-14)"
CHILDREN'S
Released: Aug. 10, 2004
"In Bollywood fashion, she turns turmoil into happy endings. (Fiction. 12-15)"
With an athletic build, Jasmine "Jazz" Gardner barely resembles her petite, delicate Indian mother.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 1, 2004
"A realistic emigration story told with empathy and sincerity. (glossary) (Fiction. 12-14)"
The comfortable and confident life 12-year-old Seema Trivedi enjoys in her upper-class neighborhood in India is altered by the family's move to an American middle-class suburban community.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 6, 2004
"Both setting and protagonist are entirely memorable, and difficult to leave behind. (Fiction. 10-14)"
In a narrative redolent of spices, an American-born Indian girl sorts out memory and identity in the house of her grandfather.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: July 1, 2001
"Development of some minor characters is weak (Raj, the father, never comes to life), but Tara, Rohini, and Naniji are strong women who fight back against the tone of didacticism that sometimes floats to the surface. (Fiction. 11-14)"
Irreverent and sassy, Tara-My-Stara (as her hip mom calls her) is determined to be a "regular Canadian," not a hyphenated one.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: May 1, 1993
"Gentle and palatable, the lessons are offered with compassion and easily absorbed insights. (Fiction. 10+)"
First-novelist Perkins makes tangible the ups and downs of American children from non-Western families.
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