[PDF] Rani In Search Of A Rainbow eBook

Author : Shaila Abdullah
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615992413

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Displaced by the Pakistan floods, Rani's family has taken refuge at a relief camp where they are doing their part to help other flood victims. Eight-year-old Rani wants to assist but doesn't know how. Heeding the advice of her father to help in a way only children can, Rani embarks on a journey to bring true joy to a dear friend on the occasion of Eid. "This sweet, touching story is based on the historic 2010 floods in Pakistan which affected 8.6 million children. As a result of reading Rani in Search of a Rainbow or having it read to them, youngsters will be introduced to the culture of Pakistan." --WAYNE WALKER,ÿHome School Book Reviews "Abdullah's use of poetic language and Rani's quest to find her place in her community will keep readers turning the pages until the end." --GWENDOLYN HOOKS, author of 17 books for young readers "Rani in Search of a Rainbow glows under the colorful hues of its text and rich characters. As readers, we are taken into a unique setting that one would not expect to visit in the confi nes of a children's picture book." --JEWEL KATS, author ofÿReena's Bollywood DreamÿandÿCinderella's Magical Wheelchair SHAILA ABDULLAH is an award-winning author and designer based in Austin, Texas. Her other books include:ÿSaffron Dreams, Beyond the Cayenne Wall, My Friend Suhana,ÿandÿA Manual for Marco. The author has received several awards for her work including the Golden Quill Award and Patras Bukhari Award for English Language. From Growing With Love Series at Loving Healing Pressÿ LCCN: 2014024041ÿ Juvenile Fiction : Social Issues - Homelessness & Poverty

Author : Chitra Sankaran
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 0820368326

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In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Author : Adeline Johns-Putra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316512169

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This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.

Author : Wenying Xu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1538157322

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A Library Journal Best Reference Book of 2022 This book represents the culmination of over 150 years of literary achievement by the most diverse ethnic group in the United States. Diverse because this group of ethnic Americans includes those whose ancestral roots branch out to East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Western Asia. Even within each of these regions, there exist vast differences in languages, cultures, religions, political systems, and colonial histories. From the earliest publication in 1887 to the latest in 2021, this dictionary celebrates the incredibly rich body of fiction, poetry, memoirs, plays, and children’s literature. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on genres, major terms, and authors. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this topic.

Author : Shaila Abdullah
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1615992472

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An 8-year old girl decides to make a list of all the things she likes and dislikes about dealing with her autistic brother, and in doing so realizes that she has created A Manual for Marco. "Through her genuine and caring accounts about growing up with an older, autistic brother, this 8-year-old also shows her love for her sibling who is special but sometimes does things that are not-so-special. I highly recommend this book written with sensitivity and beautifully illustrated." --Lorna d’Entremont, M.Ed., Special Needs Book Review "Shaila Abdullah proves to be a great ambassador for autism, using explanations and warm, welcoming illustrations in A Manual for Marco that give a complex condition a simpler explanation." --C. Hope Clark, Author of The Carolina Slade Mysteries and The Edisto Island Mysteries "A Manual for Marco is a welcome addition to children’s literature that will help in introducing the condition of autism to young people and providing information that will enable them to understand a little more about it so that it will not seem so scary." --Wayne Walker, Home School Book Reviews For more information, please visit www.ShailaAbdullah.com SHAILA ABDULLAH is an award-winning author and designer based in Austin, Texas. She has written four other books: Saffron Dreams, Beyond the Cayenne Wall, My Friend Suhana, and Rani in Search of a Rainbow. Along with illustrations by the author, A Manual for Marco also includes artwork by IMAN TEJPAR, a 12-year-old artist from Canada. From the Growing With Love Series Loving Healing Press Juvenile Fiction: Social Issues - Special Needs

Author : Shaila Abdullah
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 39,29 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1615992111

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While volunteering with her mother at a community center, a seven-year-old girl befriends Suhana, also seven, whose cerebral palsy makes it difficult for her to communicate or control her movements. Includes facts about cerebral palsy.

Author : Shaila Abdullah
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932690735

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Arissa Illahi, a Muslim artist and writer, discovers in a single moment that life itself chooses one's destiny. After her husband's death in the collapse of the World Trade Center, the discovery of his manuscript marks Arissa's reconnection to life.

Author : Catherine Daly
Publisher : RH/Disney
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780736426596

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When Queen Clarion hosts a Fairy Treasure Hunt, Rani is worried that being partnered with Ronan, the slowest sparrow man in Never Land, will cause her to lose a bet with Vidia.

Author : Sonia Patel
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1941026516

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2017 William C. Morris Award Finalist Almost seventeen, Rani Patel appears to be a kick-ass Indian girl breaking cultural norms as a hip-hop performer in full effect. But in truth, she's a nerdy flat-chested nobody who lives with her Gujarati immigrant parents on the remote Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, isolated from her high school peers by the unsettling norms of Indian culture where "husband is God." Her parents' traditionally arranged marriage is a sham. Her dad turns to her for all his needs—even the intimate ones. When Rani catches him two-timing with a woman barely older than herself, she feels like a widow and, like widows in India are often made to do, she shaves off her hair. Her sexy bald head and hard-driving rhyming skills attract the attention of Mark, the hot older customer who frequents her parents' store and is closer in age to her dad than to her. Mark makes the moves on her and Rani goes with it. He leads Rani into 4eva Flowin', an underground hip hop crew—and into other things she's never done. Rani ignores the red flags. Her naive choices look like they will undo her but ultimately give her the chance to discover her strengths and restore the things she thought she'd lost, including her mother. Sonia Patel is a psychiatrist who works with children and adults. She was trained at Stanford University and the University of Hawaii. She lives and practices in Hawaii. Rani Patel In Full Effect is her first young adult novel. BookExpo America Editor's Buzz Selection 2016 Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books 2016 New York Public Library 50 Best Teen Books 2016 Book Page Top 10 Best Teen Book 2016 Texas Library Associations Top 10 Teen Books 2017 Multnomah County Library Best Books 2016 The Volumes Bookcafe Staff's Best 20 of 2016 2017 Amelia Bloomer List Recommended Feminist Literature For Birth Through 18 15 Essential Novels Of The #MeToo Movement, Bustle

Author : Daniel Acosta
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1941026958

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2019 Paterson Prize winner Skipping Stones Book Award Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoots through his brain like a bullet. But this river isn’t water, it’s iron—the tracks and trains of the Southern Pacific railroad that pass along his tight-knit neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley just ten miles east of L.A. The iron river is everything to Man-on-Fire, Man for short to his friends, Little Man to his uncles and cousins. He watches it, he waits for it, he plays nears its tracks, he listens for the weight of its currents (strong currents flowing east pulling two hundred boxcars, light current going west with less than fifty cars), he whiles away long summer days throwing rocks and bricks at it with his friends Danny, Marco and Little. They line up cans and bottles in mock battles to try to throw it off track. But nothing derails the iron river, and nothing stops the stinking cop Turk from trying to pin a hobo’s murder on the four young boys.