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"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her Amma is sick. Really sick. Reha, who dreams of becoming a doctor even though she can't stomach the sight of blood, is determined to make her Amma well again. She'll be the perfect daughter, if it means saving her Amma's life"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Two
• Give and take
• Girls just want to have fun
• First memory
• Our home
• The star
• Sunny
• Red and white
• Rachel
• Bindi
• Amma's orbit
• The discovery
• Daddy
• Drowning
• Everyone else
• Red, white, and whole
• Courtly love
• Do you speak Indian?
• When you are different
• Sisters

• Brothers
• Only
• Birthday parties
• Embarrassing things
• Rules
• Mustard seeds
• Pop music
• Grandparents, part 1
• Everywhere
• Expectations
• Hero
• Separate
• Grandparents, part 2
• After school
• MTV
• Star Wars
• Aerogrammes
• Here and there
• Accents
• On the threshold
• Hot and cold
• Amar Chitra Kathas
• Savitri, part 1
• Cells
• My Aerogramme
• The project
• Smart
• Savitri, part 2
• What Rachel thinks
• Deepavali
• Always something there to remind me
• The dress
• At the mall
• Down the stairs
• Come dancing
• Time after time
• Hands
• The end of the dance
• What's wrong
• The diagnosis
• The river
• The moon
• Waiting
• The first day back
• The treatment
• Savitri, part 3
• The phone call
• Lost
• Two
• Thanksgiving
• Guilt
• Dutiful
• Under hospital lights
• Not allowed
• The new routine
• Mustard seeds, part 2
• Two weeks
• Won't make her come home
• Please
• The color of virtue
• Wednesday
• School daze
• Afternoons
• True
• The promise
• Rapids
• The arrival
• Another surprise
• My mother's sister
• Roommates
• The new rhythm
• Pop or alternative
• Every breath you take
• Mix tape
• Prema Auntie's little sister
• What Amma needs next
• The surprise
• Shock
• No one
• But if
• Hero
• The needle
• Close enough
• Savitri, part 4
• The story I want to tell
• Watching
• Dr. Andrews
• The river
• Goodbye
• Jealous
• Total eclipse of the heart
• Comfortably numb
• The phone call
• Savitri, part 5
• Aerogramme
• Family ties
• Start
• Always something there to remind me
• Author's note.

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Author/Creator:

LaRocca, Rajani , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Red, white, and whole [by LaRocca, R.]

Subjects:

East Indian Americans — Juvenile fiction

Families — Juvenile fiction

Friendship — Juvenile fiction

Middle schools — Juvenile fiction

Schools — Juvenile fiction

Sick parents — Juvenile fiction

East Indian Americans

Families

Friendship

Middle schools

Schools

Sick parents

United States

Genres:

Novels in verse

Fiction

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.3 3.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #510574.
Newbery Honor Book, 2022

Audience:

Children
Preteens
Ages: 8-12.
Grades: 3-7.

Creator Demographics:

Indians (India); Kentuckians; Bay Staters

Physical Description:

217 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

JFic L326re

ISBNs:

9780063047426 (hardcover)
006304742X (hardcover)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020938967

OCLC Numbers:

1232866358