Suzanne Fisher Staples
1) Shiva's fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Parvati, a young Hindu girl from India, who is known for the extraordinary events that occur when she dances, leaves her family to train with a great master, but her commitment, study, and devotion falters when she meets a gentle-eyed boy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Formats
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Author
Description
A Season of Change
Along the Virginia shoreline where their families have lived for generations, Buck and Tunes Smith defy tradition. Raised together like brother and sister, they are bound by surname, but not by skin color. And, just as Buck has come to rely on Tunes, Tunes has come to trust that even in a place where race can mean so much, their friendship will remain as dependable as the tides.
But then, the horrifying events of one spring afternoon...