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Every Day Is Malala Day
Gr 2–4—This picture gallery from the president of Plan Canada, an organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children in developing countries, opens with a photo and brief introduction to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani student who was shot for her outspoken support of girls' education...
Your Constant Star
Gr 9 Up—This YA novel is told in three parts, each from the perspective of very different teens: Faye, the "good girl" who was abandoned in a Chinese market and adopted by white Canadian parents (and yearns after her Belarusian crush); Bev, Faye's pregnant former neighbor who seeks her help; and Mannie, the father of Bev's baby, who gets his kicks by joyriding in stolen cars...
The Weaver's Scar: For Our Rwanda
Gr 7 Up—In the prologue, Faustin Kazubwenge introduces himself as a Lincoln High student who eats French fries, drinks Coke, and goes to movies...
Spirit of a Mountain Wolf
Gr 9 Up—As the story opens, an earthquake in the Pakistani mountains leaves a village destroyed and 14-year-old Abdur-Razaq Nadeem orphaned and homeless...
Frozen
Gr 8 Up—The frozen future of New Vegas is the setting of the first title in the "Heart of Dread" series, a world where the sea is filled with "trashbergs," and the citizens of the Remaining States of America gamble to win fresh water...
Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
Gr 6–10—Perkins introduces her new anthology with guidelines for telling humorous stories about life between cultures: good humor pokes fun at the powerful, builds affection for the 'other,' and is self-deprecatory...
The Stone of Destiny: Tales from Turkey
Gr 3–5—Salahaddin, a poor stonecutter, splits a boulder and finds "a beautiful stone, twinkling in its nest of rock...
Leaving Home
Gr 10 Up—Sitar music introduces scenes from rural India in this production by award-winning producer Robert Richter...
Daddy, My Favorite Guy/bà bà, wǒ zuì xo huān de rén
PreS-Gr 1—On alternating spreads, a brother and a sister relate their daily lives with their father...
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