Mitali Perkins

From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.

You Bring the Distant Near

Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.

A Novel

Bamboo People

The award-winning author of You Bring the Distant Near explores identity, homecoming, and the legacy of assault in this personal and ambitious new novel. Katina King is the reigning teen jujitsu champion of Northern California, but she’s having trouble fighting off the secrets in her past. Robin Thornton was adopted from an orphanage in India and is reluctant to take on his future. If he can’t find his roots, how can he possibly plan ahead? Robin and Kat meet in the most unlikely of places—a summer service trip to Kolkata to work with survivors of human trafficking. As bonds build between the travelmates, Robin and Kat discover that justice and healing are tangled, like the pain of their pasts and the hope for their futures. You can’t rewind life; sometimes you just have to push play. In turns heart wrenching, beautiful, and buoyant, Mitali Perkins's new novel focuses its lens on the ripple effects of violence—across borders and generations—and how small acts of heroism can break the cycle.

Forward Me Back to You

Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.

Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices

Open Mic

Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help set up a clinic.

Monsoon Summer

When Asha's father goes off to America and leaves his two daughters behind in Calcutta, their traditional uncle and his family put pressures on the two like none before, but a new friendship with a local boy helps ease Asha's pain until her father finally comes calling and an important decision must be made.

Secret Keeper

Hope in the Valley

Lavanya Naidu

Home Is in Between

“One of the new tiger cubs has escaped from the reserve!” When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find her before the cub’s anxious mother follows suit and endangers them all. Mr. Gupta, a rich newcomer to the island, is also searching—he wants to sell the cub’s body parts on the black market. Neel and his sister, Rupa, resolve to find the cub first and bring her back to the reserve where she belongs. The hunt for the cub interrupts Neel’s preparations for an exam to win a prestigious scholarship at a boarding school far from home. Neel doesn’t mind—he dreads the exam and would rather stay on his beloved island in the Sunderbans of West Bengal with his family and friends. But through his encounter with the cub, Neil learns that sometimes you have to take risks to preserve what you love. And sometimes you have to sacrifice the present for the chance to improve the future. Awards & Honors • Notable Books for a Global Society • NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction (Honorable Mention) • CBC-NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People • A Junior Library Guild Selection • CCBC Choices • 2017 North Dakota Library Association Flicker Tale Children's Book Award nominee, intermediate fiction • 2016 South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature

Tiger Boy

It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea. She makes it into a kite that soars over the top of the iron bars. Here is a heartwarming tale of multi-cultural families, and the miracle of love.

A Family Story from the Border

Between Us and Abuela

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.

Rickshaw Girl

When her grandparents come for a visit from India to California, thirteen-year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself and her friends.

The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen

Khoa Le

A Story for Holy Week

Bare Tree and Little Wind

During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-American" image and create a fake weblog in her name.

Extreme American Makeover

First Daughter

N. H. Kleinbaum

When her grandparents come to visit from India to California, thirteen- year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself and her friends.

The Authorized Story of American Gold

Magnificent Seven

Laurie Keller

James Ponti

Nick Caruso

Sonia Sotomayor

Rob Sanders

Candace Fleming

Linda Sue Park

Ibtihaj Muhammad

Gennifer Choldenko

Adam Gidwitz

Jasmine Warga

Cynthia Lord

Zanib Mian

Matthew A. Cherry

Oge Mora

Derrick Barnes

Traci Sorell

Kevin Noble Maillard

Graham Annable

Karen Levine

Jess French

Jamie L. B. Deenihan

Karina Yan Glaser

Remy Lai

Jamie Sumner

Ross Burach

Sharon Mills Draper

Rebecca Gomez

Caron Levis

Monica Clark-Robinson

Kara West

Tom Greenwald

Rita L. Hubbard

Emily Chenoweth

David Biedrzycki

Guido Daniele

A selection of nominees and winners of the Monarch and Bluestem children's book awards on a full-color Kindle Fire.

Children's Monarch and Bluestem Books

Kindle Fire

From the author of Rickshaw Girl and You Bring the Distant Near, a National Book Award Longlist title, comes a story about the magic of India’s monsoon season—“monsoon madness”—and all the change it brings to a teenage girl and her family. Jasmine “Jazz” Gardner heads off to India during the monsoon season. The family trip is her mother’s doing: Mrs. Gardner wants to volunteer at the orphanage that cared for her when she was young. But going to India isn’t Jazz’s idea of a great summer vacation. She wants no part of her mother’s do-gooder endeavors. What’s more, Jazz is heartsick. She’s leaving the business she and her best friend, Steve Morales, started—as well as Steve himself. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. Only when Jazz befriends Danita, a girl from the orphanage who cooks for her family and faces a tough dilemma, does Jazz begin to see how she can make a difference—to her own family, to Danita, to the children at the orphanage, and even to Steve. As India claims Jazz, the monsoon works its madness and magic.

A lyrical, captivating retelling of the Palm Sunday and Easter story from National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins, author of Rickshaw Girl, that is sure to become a beloved tradition for families of faith. Little Wind and the trees of Jerusalem can't wait for Real King to visit. But Little Wind is puzzled when the king doesn't look how he expected. His wise friend Bare Tree helps him learn that sometimes strength is found in sacrifice, and new life can spring up even when all hope seems lost. This story stands apart for its imagination, endearing characters, and how it weaves Old Testament imagery into Holy Week and the promise of Jesus's triumphant return. While the youngest readers will connect to the curious Little Wind, older children and parents will appreciate the layers of meaning and Scriptural references in the story, making it a book families can enjoy together year after year.

Pascale Houssin Jusforgues

Des années 1960 aux années 2000, cinq femmes cherchent leur propre voie, entre leur culture indienne et le rêve américain auquel elles aspirent. Ranee migre avec sa famille du Bengale à New York pour une vie meilleure. Tara, sa première fille, est admirée par tous, mais se sent obligée de jouer un rôle pour continuer à être aimée. Sonia, sa cadette, rebelle et engagée, provoque un véritable séisme au sein de la famille lorsqu'elle tombe amoureuse. Chantal, la fille de Sonia, talentueuse danseuse et athlète, est prise dans une lutte entre ses deux grands-mères et ses origines. Anna, enfin, reproche à sa mère, Tara, de l'avoir forcée à quitter l'Inde pour les États-Unis et doit trouver sa place à New York. Le fragile équilibre que les femmes de la famille Das peinent à trouver est chaque jour menacé par des blessures qui mettront des générations à cicatriser...

Cinq femmes, trois générations, une grande histoire d'amour

Ranee, Tara, Sonia, Chantal, Anna

Mitali Perkins

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