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Recently immigrated from India, Gita is looking forward to celebrating her favorite holiday, Divali, a festival of lights, but things are so different in her new home that she wonders if she will ever adjust.

An East Indian boy encounters frustration in school when he is told that his name, Ashok, is difficult to pronounce.

Based on true events in India in the 1970s, young Aani and the other women in her village defend their forest from developers by wrapping their arms around the trees, making it impossible to cut them down.

Ten-year-old Sakina talks about her life in a northern Indian village.

An introduction to the land and people of India accompanied by instructions on how to read and pronounce the numbers one through ten in Hindi.

Photographs and text introduce the geography, history, government, society, and economy of this diverse nation.

A young Vietnamese girl saves a lotus seed and carries it with her everywhere to remember a brave emperor and the homeland that she has to flee.