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Mitali Perkins
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Bamboo People
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You Bring the Distant Near
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Rickshaw Girl
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Monsoon Summer
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Secret Keeper
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Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
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The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen
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Extreme American Makeover (First Daughter, #1)
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Tiger Boy
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White House Rules (First Daughter, #2)
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When I visit schools for author visits in the United States I ask if anyone in the room has heard of Bengali, or Bangla, my mother tongue. Apart from a few raised hands here and there, most non-Indian students don’t know much about the wide variety of languages in the country of my birth. Twenty-two major languages are spoken in India, including Bangla, which is the seventh most commonly-spoken...
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“Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.”
― Mitali Perkins, Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
― Mitali Perkins, Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices
“what counted was helping her father achieve his dream-and finding interesting stuff to put in her blog.”
― Mitali Perkins, Extreme American Makeover
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| Books & Boba: 2017 National Book Award | 6 | 12 | Oct 04, 2017 12:22PM |
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i just read your book monsoon summer! :D i thought it was awesome; i'm glad i read it!
hi! thanx 4 accepting my friend request! i was really happy that i found your profile on this site... :D i don't know if you remember me from that book signing, but i am a teen writer who is always looking for feedback. so if you have some advice, or if you would read some of the writing that i have posted on this site, i would really appreciate it. :) thanx again!
