Secret keeper /
Perkins, Mitali.
Secret keeper / Mitali Perkins. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. - 225 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Wilson's Senior High School, June 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal, March 2009 Publisher's Weekly, November 2008 Booklist, December 2008 Horn Book, October 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2009
In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0440239559
Sisters--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
Family life--India--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
PZ7.P4315 / Se 2009
[Fic]
Secret keeper / Mitali Perkins. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. - 225 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Wilson's Senior High School, June 2010 Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal, March 2009 Publisher's Weekly, November 2008 Booklist, December 2008 Horn Book, October 2009 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), February 2009
In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.
Young Adult Follett Library Resources
0440239559
Sisters--Fiction.
Individuality--Fiction.
Family life--India--Fiction.
India--History--Fiction.
PZ7.P4315 / Se 2009
[Fic]