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1) Holi hai!
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English
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Will Gauri's anger prevent her from enjoying the Holi festivities with her family?
2) Blue jasmine
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[2004]
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English
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When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
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2008.
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In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
4) Tiger boy
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A tiger cub's escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.
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4th Grade Rocks
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Newbery Medal Winners & Honor Books - Present to 1922
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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.
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As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
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