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Threads Of Peace: How Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Changed the World

Published: 2021, Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Tags: Government, Prejudice and racism, Social Activism
Categories: AsiaAsia, Biography - Autobiography- MemoirAsia, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, IndiaAsia, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

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Two At The Top: A Shared Dream Of Everest

Published: 2021, Groundwood Books
Tags: Adventure stories, Biographies, Mountains
Categories: AsiaAsia, Biography - Autobiography- MemoirAsia, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Early Years (ages 2-6)Asia, Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Early Years (ages 2-6), Nepal

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Book Uncle and Me

Published: 2016, Groundwood Books
Tags: Books and reading, girls, Libraries
Categories: IndiaIndia, Primary (ages 6-9)India, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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The Broken Tusk: Stories Of The Hindu God Ganesha

Published: 2006, August House
Tags: Culture, traditions
Categories: AsiaAsia, IndiaAsia, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14)Asia, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Myths and Legends

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The Girl of the Wish Garden

Published: 2013, Groundwood
Tags: Adventure, fairy tale
Categories: FantasyFantasy, MexicoFantasy, Mexico, Picture BookFantasy, Mexico, Picture Book, PoetryFantasy, Mexico, Picture Book, Poetry, Primary (ages 6-9)

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Out of the Way! Out of the Way!

Published: 2012,
Tags: busy, Folk art, growth, time, tree, village
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, IndiaAsia, Fiction, India, Picture BookAsia, Fiction, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

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The Closet Ghosts

Published: 2005, Children's Book Press
Tags: East Indian Americans, Ghost, Hinduism, Household, Monkey, moving, new environment, new school, overcoming
Categories: FantasyFantasy, IndiaFantasy, India, Picture BookFantasy, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)Fantasy, India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), United States

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Monsoon

Published: 2003, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Categories: Early Years (ages 2-6)Early Years (ages 2-6), IndiaEarly Years (ages 2-6), India, Picture BookEarly Years (ages 2-6), India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)Early Years (ages 2-6), India, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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Bringing Asha Home

Published: 2006, Lee & Low Books, Inc.
Tags: Adoption, Babies, East Indian Americans
Categories: AsiaAsia, IndiaAsia, India, Primary (ages 6-9)Asia, India, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

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Naming Maya

Published: 2004,
Tags: African Americans, Indentured servants
Categories: AsiaAsia, FictionAsia, Fiction, IndiaAsia, Fiction, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

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