Mitali Perkins, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-73123-2
Fifteen-year-old Jasmine (aka "Jazz") Gardner, resident of Berkeley, Calif., is less thrilled than the other members of her family to be spending the summer in India, where her mother was born. While her mother, father and younger brother...
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Mitali Perkins, Author . Brazos $14.99 (206p) ISBN 978-1-58743-124-1
Using the analogy of Christian families as "ambassadors" to a sometimes hostile popular culture, Perkins offers a workbook featuring a middle-of-the-road media philosophy, case studies for reflection, and discussion questions designed to...
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Mitali Perkins, Author . Dutton $16.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-525-47800-3
For 16-year-old Sameera “Sparrow” Righton, star of the first title in Perkins’s (Rickshaw Girl
) First Daughter series, life on her father’s presidential campaign trail is anything but easy. In addition to worrying about the...
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Mitali Perkins, Author . Delacorte $16.99 (225p) ISBN 978-0-385-73340-3
In an intimate and absorbing drama about a displaced Indian family in the 1970s, Perkins (Monsoon Summer
) vividly highlights the conflict between traditional Indian values and feminist ideals. After Asha’s father goes to America in search of...
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Mitali Perkins, Charlesbridge, $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58089-328-2
Perkins (Secret Keeper) pulls back a curtain on the current conflict in Myanmar (formerly Burma) in this tensely plotted portrait of teens caught in the crossfire. The novel is narrated in two parts, the first by Chiko, a son of Burmese...
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Mitali Perkins, Author Joy Street Books $16.99 (179p) ISBN 978-0-316-69943-3
Sunita Sen, the eighth-grade heroine of this disarming first novel, is sure that her grandparents' protracted visit from India will ruin her social life. She wants only to be normal--but her mother, the college teacher, has traded in her wardrobe of
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Mitali Perkins, Author Hyperion Books for Children $4.5 (179p) ISBN 978-1-56282-671-0
PW applauded the ``fresh, unaffected prose'' of this ``disarming first novel'' about an eighth-grader trying to balance Indian traditions with an all-American social life. Ages 10-14. (Apr.)
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Mitali Perkins. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-30490-4
Perkins (Bamboo People) delivers an unforgettable novel that spans decades and continents as it moves among three generations of Indian women, some new immigrants to the U.S., all struggling to bridge cultures. She begins in 1965 with sisters Sonia
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Mitali Perkins, illus. by Jamie Hogan. Charlesbridge, $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-58089-660-3
Set amid the tidal mangrove forests of the Sunderbans of India and Bangladesh, Perkins’s story follows the efforts of a boy named Neel to track down a tiger cub that has escaped from a local reserve (the Sunderbans are a Unesco World Heritage site,...
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Edited by Mitali Perkins. Candlewick, $15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5866-3
Ten writers and artists, including Varian Johnson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Francisco X. Stork, offer brief works of fiction and nonfiction “about the between-cultures life.” As Perkins notes, “Humor has the power to break down barriers and draw us...
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Mitali Perkins. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-30492-8
Perkins’s latest follows alternating protagonists: brown-skinned Kat, a superhero-obsessed, tough-as-nails regional jiujitsu champion and California girl with a single, white-skinned mother; and India-born superhero enthusiast Robin, adopted by...
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Mitali Perkins. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-38851-5
In this moving novel by Perkins (The Story of Us), 13-year-old aspiring poet Pandita Paul struggles to navigate grief and change in her rapidly gentrifying Silicon Valley neighborhood. Since the death of Pandu’s mother years ago, the apricot orchard
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Mitali Perkins. Broadleaf, $22.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-5064-8553-9
Creativity can be a powerful tool for “alleviating suffering and fighting injustice,” according to this graceful guide from children’s author Perkins (The Golden Necklace). She contends that those who make art participate in a kind of “just making”...
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Mitali Perkins, illus. by Sara Palacios. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30373-0
Perkins, a YA author making a powerful picture book debut, and Palacios (How to Code a Sandcastle) have created a story based around La Posada Sin Fronteras (“The Inn Without Borders”), a San Diego–Tijuana border wall tradition that occurs during...
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Mitali Perkins, illus. by Khoa Le. WaterBrook, $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-23487-7
Broadly inspired by scripture, Perkins draws on nature to illuminate the story of Holy Week in this wide-ranging picture book. When Little Wind, humanized with a brown-skinned child’s face, blows into Jerusalem, a tall tree reveals that palm fronds...
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Mitali Perkins, illus. by Lavanya Naidu. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-30367-9
Shanti’s story starts when her family leaves their village in India for an American town “with cold rain and orange and yellow leaves,” and she begins to move back and forth between both cultures: “Remembering the village./ Learning the town./ Again
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