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A 2002 New York Public Library Selection for Books for the Teen Age
Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2002
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Choices, 2002
Hey Tara, what's your mother tongue?
Questions like this make fifteen-year-old Tara Mehta's blood boil, especially when asked by a teacher who ought to know better. Yes, her parents were raised in India, but Tara has lived in Ottawa her whole life - she's as Canadian as everybody else. There are much more important things than where her family came from. Jeff, for instance. He's the new guy with the blue eyes and a brain that actually works.
But then she meets her grandmother for the first time. Dadiji fought with Gandhi in the Indian independence movement, and she's horrified to learn that her grandchildren know almost nothing about her heritage. Tara resents her grandmother's attitude until she learns how Dadiji came to join the fight for independence.
Shocked and angered by the history that she's never been taught in school, Tara decides to tell Dadiji's story to her class. In the wake of the violently mixed reactions that follow, Tara comes to realize that most people need to expand their definition of what it means to be a "regular" Canadian - including herself.
About: Honour Book, 2002 Jane Addams Children's Book AwardA 2002 New York Public Library Selection for Books for the Teen AgeBank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year, 2002Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Choices, 2002Hey Tara, what's your mother tongue?
About: Learning from her grandmother that her family was active in the Quit India movement of 1942, a rebellion against nearly two centuries of British occupation, gives fifteen-year-old Tara new pride in her heritage, but she still objects when her teacher implies she is not a 'regular Canadian.
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