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Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.
By Jamel Akib (illustrator) and Uma Krishnaswami

Hardcover:

9780405060571, titled "The Beginnings of Telephony" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $25.50 | also contains The Beginnings of Telephony

Paperback:

9781620142257 | Reprint edition (Lee & Low Books, April 1, 2015), cover price $9.95

School and Library:

9781584302599 | Lee & Low Books, September 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eight-year-old Arun waits impatiently while international adoption paperwork is completed so that he can meet his new baby sister from India.

By Abigail Halpin (illustrator) and Uma Krishnaswami

Hardcover:

9781416995890 | Atheneum, May 24, 2011, cover price $16.99

Paperback:

9781416995906 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, February 19, 2013), cover price $7.99

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Embarrassed by her clumsiness, eight-year-old Meena, an Asian Indian American girl, is reluctant to appear in the school play until she gains self-confidence by practicing yoga.
By Ruth Jeyaveeran (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781600603600 | Lee & Low Books, August 1, 2008, cover price $9.95

School and Library:

9781584302377 | Lee & Low Books, October 30, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Embarrassed by her clumsiness, eight-year-old Meena, an Asian Indian American girl, is reluctant to appear in the school play until she gains self-confidence by practicing yoga.

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Daysha's grandma has come down with a bad case of sadness now that Grandpa has been gone for over a year, so Daysha sets out to remind her grandma of happy times they shared to bring back happy memories.

School and Library:

9781590784242 | Boyds Mills Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Grandma comes down with a 'bad case of sadness' one year after Grandpa's death, Daysha collects objects that Grandpa loved and shows them to Grandma.

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Collects seventeen legends about the elephant-headed Hindu god of new beginnings.

Hardcover:

9780208024428 | Linnet Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: A collection of stories about the pantheon of Hindu gods, centering on the sometimes greedy, sometimes impulsive, but always generous, elephant-headed Ganesha

Paperback:

9780874838060 | August House Pub Inc, October 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Collects seventeen legends about the elephant-headed Hindu god of new beginnings.

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With help from Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, Anu finds a way to cope with going to a new school, living in a new home, and even dealing with the mischievous ghosts in her closet.
By Shiraaz Bhabha (illustrator) and Uma Krishnaswami

School and Library:

9780892392087 | Childrens Book Pr, February 1, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With help from Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god, Anu finds a way to cope with going to a new school, living in a new home, and even dealing with the mischievous ghosts in her closet.

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When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.

School and Library:

9780374354855 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 6, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: When Maya accompanies her mother to India to sell her grandfather's house, she uncovers family history relating to her parents divorce and learns more about herself and her relationship with her mother.

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Through one young girl's observations of her hometown in northern India, the importance and excitement of the arrival of monsoon during the summer months is told as the people of her hometown welcome the rains.
By Jamel Akib (illustrator) and Uma Krishnaswami

School and Library:

9780374350154 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 6, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A child describes waiting for the monsoon rains to arrive and the worry that they will not come.

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An introduction to the traditions and festivities of the Hindu festival called Holi.

Paperback:

9780516277646 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the traditions and festivities of the Hindu festival called Holi.

Library:

9780516228631 | Childrens Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $20.50 | About this edition: An introduction to the traditions and festivities of the Hindu festival called Holi.

Prebinding:

9780613596336 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An introduction to the traditions and festivities of the Hindu festival called Holi.

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A boy learns about his family history and the Partition of India from his great uncle, through stories told over a beloved old teacup.

School and Library:

9780892391783 | Childrens Book Pr, May 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A boy learns about his family history and the Partition of India from his great uncle, through stories told over a beloved old teacup.

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Offers alternative ways to use field trips, or place-based learning, to increase students' learning through the process of inquiry, including examples of using the technique across the curriculum in a wide variety of settings. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780208025012 | Shoe String Pr Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers alternative ways to use field trips, or place-based learning, to increase students' learning through the process of inquiry, including examples of using the technique across the curriculum in a wide variety of settings.

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A collection of stories featuring strong female figures from Hindu mythology, Buddhist tales, and others from the history and folklore of the Indian subcontinent, with each piece accompanied by background information (view table of contents)
By Uma Krishnaswami and Maniam Selven (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780208024848 | Linnet Books, March 1, 1999, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: A collection of stories featuring strong female figures from Hindu mythology, Buddhist tales, and others from the history and folklore of the Indian subcontinent, with each piece accompanied by background information

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An illustrated collection of easy-to-read folktales from around the world shows how widely separated cultures have myths of a universal flood with many similar elements, including angry gods punishing humans and a person who is allowed to survive. IP.
By Uma Krishnaswami and Birgitta Saflund (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781570980077 | Roberts Rinehart Pub, September 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of flood legends and tales from around the world features the stories of Nu Wa from China, Utnapishtim from ancient Sumeria, and the frog and the people, from the Alabama nation in North America

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