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Maya running
Title:
Maya running
Author:
Banerjee, Anjali.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2005]

©2005
Physical Description:
209 pages : 22 cm
Summary:
Maya, a Canadian of East Indian descent, struggles with her ethnic identity, infatuation with a classmate, and the presence of her beautiful Bengali cousin, Pinky, who comes for a visit bearing a powerful statue of the god Ganesh, the Hindu elephant boy. Maya Mukherjee doesn't fit in. She was born in India and her parents moved to Canada when she was a baby. Now it's the 1970s, and she's a middle schooler in Manitoba, land of moose and snow. She wants to run on the tundra beneath the Northern Lights, make igloos or snow-angels, see John Travolta, and ride elephants through the Bengal jungle the way her great-grandfather did. Then her gorgeous cousin Pinky comes from India for a visit, bringing a statue of the god Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles. Maya asks Ganesh to remove all obstacles to her dreams. Like most wishes, it backfires in hilarious and painful ways. Maya must journey across continents to restore the truth and find out who she is.
Language:
English
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.1 6.0 86071.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9780385746564

9780385908931
Format :
Book