Kashmira Sheth
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A long weekend with lots of snow sounds like a recipe for super-special fun to Nina, especially with new friends Priya and Nayan visiting. They've just moved to Wisconsin from Florida, so Nina is prepared to introduce them to lots of winter activities: snowball fights, snow angels-and maybe even a snow fort!
And then Nina notices a strange car at her neighbors' house while they're out of town. Clearly, it's time to be a Snow Spy and identify MP (Mystery...
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Im-pres-sive means something that makes you go "Wow!"
It's Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, and Nina, Kavita, and Jay are all going to create gardens with Mom, a landscape architect. Naturally that's not enough for Nina, who quickly develops big ideas for an impressive business selling
the vegetables she plans to grow. But her plans don't include managing the problems that inevitably arise, including rabbits, slugs, mosquitos, and more.
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Em-bar-rass-ment means something you do or say that makes you wish you were someone else.
Nina Soni is a problem solver-and her latest problem is her little sister Kavita, who is a real embarrassment. Not only does Kavita sing too much, she often gets the lyrics wrong or, even worse, makes up ridiculous songs. What Nina needs is a project-a plan to fix her sister.
But one project isn't really enough, especially during a long rainy school break....
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When Nina Soni hears that her grandmother and cousin are going to visit from India, she can't wait to be the perfect hostess. She's got all sorts of lists and plans and she's prepared to be very mature; she'll even move into Kavita's room and let
Dadi and Montu have hers. It will be fun to introduce Dadi and Montu to her life and friends, and Nina is determined to control every detail to ensure a successful visit.
Not surprisingly, things don't...
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For-mer means once-upon-a-time.
Nina tried as hard as she could to keep track of everything, but somehow she still forgot about her school project. And her friend Jay is mad at her. With littlesister Kavita's birthday party right around the corner, and her longtime friendship with Jay on the rocks, there's a lot going on.
Fortunately, a class lesson about Alexander Fleming suggests how she might make a great discovery-and thus a great project! But...
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Ex-traor-di-nary means something extra is thrown in, so it's way more than ordinary.
Halloween brings out Nina Soni's competitive spirit. Jay has a great costume planned, so she has to come up with an extraordinary idea. A bunch of old boxes in the basement inspires her to work with Kavita to create an impressively scary haunted house, for which she can
charge admission. What could possibly go wrong for the Halloween Queen?
8) Blue jasmine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
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2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms.
10) Tiger in my soup
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©2013.
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IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Left in the care of his older sister, a boy begs her to read his favorite book but she is too absorbed in her own reading even to notice when a tiger comes to life in the steam from his soup.