The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen

By Mitali Perkins

When her grandparents come for a visit from India to California, thirteen-year-old Sunita finds herself resenting her Indian heritage and embarrassed by the differences she feels between herself an...

First daughter

By Mitali Perkins

During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-Ame...

Home Is in Between

By Mitali Perkins, Lavanya Naidu

You bring the distant near

By Mitali Perkins

From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.

You Bring the Distant Near

By Mitali Perkins

Forward Me Back to You

By Mitali Perkins

Monsoon Summer

By Mitali Perkins

Monsoon summer

By Mitali Perkins

Secretly in love with her best friend and business partner Steve, fifteen-year-old Jazz must spend the summer away from him when her family goes to India during that country's rainy season to help...

First daughter

By Mitali Perkins

During her father's presidential campaign, sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton, who was adopted from Pakistan at the age of three, struggles with campaign staffers who want to give her a more "all-Ame...

First Daughter

By Mitali Perkins

Once sixteen-year-old Sameera Righton's father is elected President of the United States, the adopted Pakistani-American girl moves into the White House and makes some decisions about how she is go...