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Children from Australia to Zimbabwe : A Photographic Journey Around the World
                     by Maya Ajmera, Anna Rhesa Versola (Contributor), Marian Wright Edelman
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                     Hardcover - 64 pages (August 1997)
                     Charlesbridge Publishing; ISBN: 088106999X

Celebrations Around the World : A Multicultural Handbook
                     by Carole S. Angell
                     Paperback - 218 pages (September 1996)
                     Fulcrum Pub; ISBN: 1555919456
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Who Is the Beast?
                     by Keith Baker
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding - 32 pages 1st Ed. edition
                     (September 1990)
                     Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152960570

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Children Just Like Me: Children Just Like Me
                     by Susan Elizabeth Copsey, Barnabas Kindersley, Harry Belafonte
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                     Hardcover - 79 pages (October 1995)
                     DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789402017

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Women in the Material World
                     by Faith D'Aluisio, Peter Menzel (Contributor), Naomi Wolf
                     Hardcover (September 1996)
                     Sierra Club Books; ISBN: 0871563983

Everybody Cooks Rice (Picture Books)
                     by Norah Dooley, Peter Thornton (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 32 pages Reprint edition (November 1992)
                     First Avenue Editions; ISBN: 0876145918

Everybody Bakes Bread
                     by Norah Dooley, Peter J. Thornton (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 32 pages (March 1996)
                     Carolrhoda Books; ISBN: 087614895X

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Feathers and Fools
                     by Mem Fox, Nicholas Wilton (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover 1 edition (April 1996)
                     Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152004734

Whoever You Are
                     by Mem Fox, Leslie Staub (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     School & Library Binding - 32 pages (October 1997)
                     Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0152007873

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Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories
                     by Jamila Gavin, Amanda Hall (Illustrator), Barnabas Kindersley (Photographer), Anabel Kindersley
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 48 pages (May 1997)
                     DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789414864

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Children Just Like Me: Celebrations!
                     by Anabel Kindersley (Contributor), Barnabas Kindersley (Photographer)
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                     Hardcover - 64 pages (October 1997)
                     DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789420279

Children Just Like Me: Children Just Like Me Sticker Book
                     by Barnabas Kindersley, Anabel, Anc Staff Dk Publishing, Inc Staff Dk Publishing
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback - 16 pages (October 1998)
                     Dk Pub Merchandise; ISBN: 0789436264

Who Belongs Here? : An American Story
                     by Margy Burns Knight, Anne Sibley O'Brien (Illustrator), Margy Burns Knight, Anne Sibley O'brien
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                     Hardcover - 40 pages (October 1993)
                     Tilbury House Publishers; ISBN: 0884481107

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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
                     by James W. Loewen
                     Paperback - 383 pages (September 1996)
                     Touchstone Books; ISBN: 0684818868

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Material World : A Global Family Portrait
                     by Peter Menzel, Sandra Eisert (Photographer), Charles C. Mann (Contributor), Paul Kennedy
                     (Introduction)
                     Hardcover - 255 pages (October 1994)
                     Sierra Club Books; ISBN: 0871564378

Moontellers : Myths of the Moon from Around the World
                     by Lynn Moroney, Greg Shed (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 32 pages (May 1995)
                     Rising Moon; ISBN: 0873586018

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Somewhere in the World Right Now
                     by Stacey Schuett
                    Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Hardcover - 1 pages (August 1995)
                     A. A. Knopf; ISBN: 0679865373

People
                     by Peter Spier
                     Reading level: Ages 4-8
                     Paperback Reprint edition (May 1988)
                     Doubleday; ISBN: 038524469X
 



 Books that Reflect Life in India

Count Your Way Through India
                      by James, Haskins, Jim Haskins, Liz B. Dodson (Illustrator)
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Library Binding - 22 pages (November 1990)
                      Carolrhoda Books; ISBN: 0876144148

The Children of India (The World's Children)
                      by Jules M. Hermes
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      Library Binding Reissue edition (December 1994)
                      First Avenue Editions; ISBN: 0876148488

The Monkey and the Crocodile : A Jataka Tale from India
                      by Paul Galdone
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Paperback Reprint edition (September 1987)
                      Houghton Mifflin Co (Juv); ISBN: 0899195245

India (Where We Live)
                      by Donna Bailey, Malcolm Rodgers
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Library Binding - 32 pages (April 1990)
                      Steck-Vaughn Library Div; ISBN: 0811425487

India (Postcards From)
                            by Denise Allard
                            Reading level: Ages 4-8
                            Library Binding - 32 pages (September 1996)
                            Raintree/Steck Vaughn; ISBN: 0817240276

Heart of a Tiger
                      by Marsha Diane Arnold, Jamichael Henterly (Illustrator)
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Hardcover - 1 pages (October 1995)
                      Dial Books; ISBN: 0803716958

Anni's India Diary
                      by Ann Axworthy, Anni Axworthy
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      Hardcover - 1 pages (October 1992)
                      Whispering Coyote Pr; ISBN: 1879085593

In the Heart of the Village : The World of the Indian Banyan Tree (Bash,
                      Barbara. Tree Tales.)
                      by Barbara Bash
                      Reading level: All Ages
                      Hardcover - 1 pages (September 1996)
                      Little Brown & Co (Juv Trd); ISBN: 0871565757

Binya's Blue Umbrella
                      by Ruskin Bond, Vera Rosenberry (Illustrator)
                     Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      School & Library Binding - 32 pages (February 1995)
                      Boyds Mills Pr; ISBN: 1563971356

Cherry Tree
                      by Ruskin Bond, Allan Eitzen (Illustrator)
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Paperback - 32 pages 1 edition (October 1996)
                      Boyds Mills Pr; ISBN: 1563976218

Once a Mouse... : A Fable Cut in Wood
                      by Marcia Brown
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      Paperback - 32 pages 2nd edition (September 1989)
                      Aladdin Paperbacks; ISBN: 0689713436
 

The Ganges Delta and Its People (People and Places)
                            by David Cumming
                            Reading level: Ages 9-12
                            Library Binding - 48 pages (July 1994)
                            Thomson Learning; ISBN: 1568471688

India (Country Insights, City and Village Life)
                      by David Cumming
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      Library Binding - 80 pages (February 1998)
                      Raintree/Steck Vaughn; ISBN: 0817247971

India (Countries of the World (Mankato, Minn.).)
                            by Michael S. Dahl
                            Reading level: Ages 4-8
                            School & Library Binding (September 1997)
                            Bridgestone Books; ISBN: 1560655674

Adventures of Young Krishna (The Blue God of India)
                       by D DALAL-CLAYTON
                       Paperback - 114 pages 1 edition (August 1, 1991)
                       South Asia Books; ISBN: 0836429885

One Grain of Rice : A Mathematical Folktale
                      by Demi (Illustrator)
                      Reading level: Ages 4-8
                      School & Library Binding - 40 pages (April 1997)
                      Scholastic Trade; ISBN: 059093998X

The Golden Goose King : A Tale Told by the Buddha
                      by Judith Ernst (Illustrator)
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      Hardcover (August 1995)
                      Parvardigar Pr; ISBN: 0964436205

A Taste of India
                       by Roz Denny
                       Reading level: Ages 9-12
                       Library Binding - 48 pages (June 1997)
                       Thomson Learning; ISBN: 0817248552

Premlata and the Festival of Lights
                      by Rumer Godden, Ian P. Andrew (Illustrator), Sandra Hirshkowith
                      Reading level: Ages 9-12
                      Paperback - 80 pages (January 1999)
                      Harpercollins Juvenile Books; ISBN: 0064420914
 
  

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