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2024., Kokila Call No: FIC HIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. Both Muslim and Hindu, twelve-year-old Amil is not sure what home means anymore. The memory of the long and difficult journey from their hometown in what is now Pakistan lives with him. And despite having an apartment in Bombay to live in and a school to attend, life in India feels uncertain. Nisha, his twin sister, suggests that Amil begin to tell his story through drawings meant for their mother, who died when they were just babies. Through Amil, readers witness the unwavering spirit of a young boy trying to make sense of a chaotic world, and find hope for himself and a newly reborn nation.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Charlesbridge Call No: Easy RUTHS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Archie is worried that her school friends won't like Diwali, her favorite Hindu holiday, and when a storm knocks out the electricity, it looks like the party may be ruined."--Provided by publisher.
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2020., Primary, Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: Easy UMRIGAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Binny's class is learning about different holiday traditions, and today it is time for Binny to share the story of her favorite holiday, Diwali, the Festival of Lights--and she even has some special treats to give her classmates. Includes information on the five days of Diwali, what it commemorates, and its special traditions.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: ADVEWNTURE F SMI Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Peak Volume: 2Summary Note: Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
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2019., Juvenile, PUFFIN BOOKS Call No: HISTORICAL F HIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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 her diary.
