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Author
Series
The Rajes volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco."--
Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother's political aspirations,...
2) Dead wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taj has discovered a terrible secret--he's growing wings. He straps them down to hide them, but what if the wings are only the beginning? What kind of beast will he grow into? Taj seeks help from his cousin, the only person he can trust--but his cousin has a terrible secret too"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a rural community in Western New York, twelve-year-old Kiran Shah, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, longingly observes his prototypical American neighbors, the Bells. He attends school with Kelly Bell, but he's powerfully drawn in a way he does not yet understand to her charismatic father, Chris. Kiran's yearnings echo his parents' bewilderment as they try to adjust to a new world. His father, Nishit Shah, a successful doctor, is haunted...
Author
Series
Nina Soni volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home. Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Priya is hired to do a henna night for a teenage party, she and her friend Melissa are worried their ideas might be too babyish for the older girls.
7) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.
Author
Publisher
SJP for Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of family identity and belonging follows an Indian family through the marriage of their daughter, from the parents' arrival in the United States to the return of their estranged son.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and possible selves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
11) It lives inside
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
13) Star daughter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sheetal Mistry, a rising high school junior who is half-star, half-human, must win a competition in the starry court to save her human father.--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Jyoti is overwhelmed when she visits her grandmother in India for the first time, but she and Sita Pati quickly form a bond. When Pati visits Jyoti in America, it is Jyoti's turn to help her grandmother feel welcome.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting an arranged marriage with him.
16) The loophole
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sy, a seventeen-year-old gay Muslim boy, travels the world for a second chance at love after a possibly magical heiress grants him three wishes.--
Author
Series
Nina Soni volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second title in a humorous series featuring a charming, distractible Indian-American girl and her family and friends. A long rainy stretch during spring break has Nina restless and hungry for a new project and aggravated with little sister Kavita's embarrassing behavior. A fresh pile of dirt just delivered to the neighbor's house for a landscaping project ends up being too tempting to resist. Can Nina fix Kavita and create something amazing...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Shahanis came to Queens-from India, by way of Casablanca-in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't; the unforeseen obstacles that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak; and the strength of a family determined to stay together. -- inside front book jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the remarkable true story of Taj Rowland. Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in India, sold to a Christian orphanage, and then adopted by an unsuspecting couple in the United States. It takes months before the boy can speak enough English to tell his parents that he already has a family back in India. Horrified, they try their best to track down his Indian family, but all avenues lead...
20) Gun island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dealer of rare books, Dr. Deen Datta is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes...
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