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Author
Series
Chai Masala Club romances volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, untilshe meets her new neighbor Nash Hawthorne..."--
Author
Language
English
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Description
This program is read by the author.
In eleven sharp, surprising stories, Neel Patel gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by. We meet two brothers caught in an elaborate web of envy and loathing; a young gay man who becomes involved with an older man whose secret he could never guess;...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
4) Gold diggers
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"An Indian-American serio-comic and magical realist epic love story about the perils of ambition, tracing the mysterious alchemy of its characters' transformation from high school in an Atlanta suburb through young adulthood in the Bay Area"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While practicing for their next baseball game, thirteen-year-old friends Rabi, Miguel, and Joe discover that the nefarious activities of the Delbe, Iowa, meatpacking plant have caused cows to turn into zombies.
6) Dead wings
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taj has discovered that 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.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. Buried secrets rise to the surface, and as their...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
10) Laxmi's mooch
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After Laxmi's friend Zoe points out the hairs on her lip, Laxmi is very self-conscious until her East Indian parents help her to accept and celebrate her appearance.
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey . . . until her parents mysteriously vanish and a drooling rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen, determined to eat her alive. Turns out there might be some truth to her parents' fantastical stories-like how Kiranmala is a real Indian princess and how she comes from a secret place not of this world. To complicate...
13) The chaos curse
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Prince Lal is taken to her hometown in New Jersey, Kiranmala must return home to rescue him, but she faces a disturbing prophecy about the coming conflict between good and evil that is being led by her father, the evil Serpent King.
14) Raking leaves
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meera helps her parents rake all the colorful leaves that have fallen from the trees. Pairs with the nonfiction title Trees in Fall.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
Maya Aziz 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. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted-they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked-Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"-but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
17) A place for us
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging A Place for Us unfolds the lives of an Indian-American Muslim family, gathered together in their Californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter, Hadia's, wedding - a match of love rather than tradition. It is here, on this momentous day, that Amar, the youngest of the siblings, reunites...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis.
Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning...
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Months after Kiranmala's adventure in the Kingdom Beyond, a vision of the Demon Queen starts showing up in her bedroom, trying to tell Kiran something, but getting cutoff before she can finish; then she starts seeing an advertisement for an archery contest on her family's interdimensional television and Kiran realizes that she must return to her place of birth--where society is falling apart, a reality show is taking over, her friends are in danger,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told through letters, aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra learns a lesson about love while directing a movie for the Midsummer Night arts festival, in which her longtime crush and his twin brother are also participating.
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