Pandita Paul doesn't like change.
Pandita's not ready to start middle school. She does not want to lose her memories of her mother, who died a few years earlier. And she does not want to lose the secret place where she would spend time with her mother, at an abandoned house across the street.
When the town decides that the old house must be bulldozed, and her town and her family divided on the issue, Pandita has to find her voice-and the strength to move on-in order to give her community hope.
Hope in the Valley is a tale of grief, family, friendship and poetry-and of growing up in Silicon Valley, at a time when immigrants are looked at with suspicion.
Mitali Bose Perkins (mitaliperkins.com) has written many novels for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl (chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the top 100 books for children in the past 100 years) and Bamboo People (an American Library Association's Top Ten Novels for Young Adults, starred in Publishers Weekly as "a graceful exploration of the redemptive power of love, family, and friendship"). Her book Tiger Boy was a South Asia Book Award winner in 2016 and a Neev Book Award winner in 2018.
Mitali was born in Kolkata, India before immigrating to the US with her family. She graduated from Stanford University in Political Science, received her Masters in Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley, and has lived in Bangladesh, India, England, Thailand, Mexico, Cameroon, and Ghana. Currently she resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sons.
Pandita Paul doesn't like change.
Pandita's not ready to start middle school. She does not want to lose her memories of her mother, who died a few years earlier. And she does not want to lose the secret place where she would spend time with her mother, at an abandoned house across the street.
When the town decides that the old house must be bulldozed, and her town and her family divided on the issue, Pandita has to find her voice-and the strength to move on-in order to give her community hope.
Hope in the Valley is a tale of grief, family, friendship and poetry-and of growing up in Silicon Valley, at a time when immigrants are looked at with suspicion.
Mitali Bose Perkins (mitaliperkins.com) has written many novels for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl (chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the top 100 books for children in the past 100 years) and Bamboo People (an American Library Association's Top Ten Novels for Young Adults, starred in Publishers Weekly as "a graceful exploration of the redemptive power of love, family, and friendship"). Her book Tiger Boy was a South Asia Book Award winner in 2016 and a Neev Book Award winner in 2018.
Mitali was born in Kolkata, India before immigrating to the US with her family. She graduated from Stanford University in Political Science, received her Masters in Public Policy from U.C. Berkeley, and has lived in Bangladesh, India, England, Thailand, Mexico, Cameroon, and Ghana. Currently she resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and sons.
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