TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perkins,Mitali
TI  - Hope in the valley
SN  - 9780374388515
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar Straus Giroux
KW  - East Indian Americans
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Grief
KW  - Change
KW  - Neighborhoods
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Social problem fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - Ages 8-12; Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers; Grades 4-6; Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
N2  - Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul deals with change, grief, friendship, and growing up in a community facing a housing crisis; Twelve-year-old Indian-American Pandita Paul doesn't like change. She's not ready to start middle school and leave the comforts of childhood behind. Most of all, Pandita doesn't want to feel like she's leaving her mother, who died a few years ago, behind. After a falling out with her best friend, Pandita is planning to spend most of her summer break reading and writing in her favorite secret the abandoned but majestic mansion across the street. But then the unthinkable happens. The town announces that the old home will be bulldozed in favor of new maybe affordable housing. With her family on opposing sides of the issue, Pandita must find her voice and the strength to move on in order to give her community hope
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