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2) Pashmina
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Indian-American teen, Priyanka "Pri" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years ago? What was it like there? And most importantly, who is her father, and why did her mom leave him behind? But Pri's mom avoids these questions and the topic of India is permanently closed. For...
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Heavily influenced by his childhood in British-ruled India, Rudyard Kipling created some of the most well-read children's stories in western culture. Originally published as a series of short stories for magazines in the late 1800s, the Nobel Prize-winning Rudyard Kipling would eventually publish the classic The Jungle Book in 1894.
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As a young man growing up in a small South African village, Nelson Mandela had very simple dreams; he dreamed of being free to choose his own path in life. But being a black man in South Africa, even the simple dreams of freedom could never become a reality. South Africa was a nation ruled by an oppressive and discriminatory set of laws known as apartheid. Nelson Mandela took the lead in the fight for the equality of all races, and the government...
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