Title: Home Is in Between- --(WB) Author: Mitali Perkins
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing
ISBN: 9781669610656
SKU: WB000859
Release Date: 44621
Genre: Diversity -
Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Language : English
Description : From National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins comes a sweet and innovative picture book about a first-generation immigrant child living in America. Shanti and her parents say goodbye to the monsoon rains in their Indian village. They move to a snowy town on the other side of the world. At first, it isn't easy for Shanti to be new. Back and forth she trudges between her family's Bengali traditions and her new country's culture. Again and again, in between. She feasts on biryani rice while kids in town eat hot dogs and PB&J sandwiches. She watches Bollywood movies at home and Hollywood movies with new friends. Is she still Indian? Is she becoming American? How should she define home? In this timely yet timeless picture book, critically-acclaimed author Mitali Perkins uses her own childhood to describe the experience of navigating multiple cultures and embracing the space—the hyphen—in between them.