Lights for Gita

by Rachna Gilmore, illustrated by Alice Priestley

tagged: emigration & immigration, emotions & feelings

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list price: $7.95

edition:Paperback

category: Children's Fiction

published: Sep 1994

ISBN:9780929005614

publisher: Second Story Press

Description

Gita’s family has recently emigrated from India, but she has already made friends in her new home. Today, she is looking forward to her favourite holiday – Divali, a festival of lights. But Gita’s plans soon fall apart and she becomes homesick.

About the Authors

Rachna Gilmore is the author of the 1999 Governor General’s Award–winning A Screaming Kind of Day, the acclaimed Gita picture books, and various novels for children. The Sower of Tales was the winner of the 2006 IODE Violet Downey Book Award, as well as a nominee for both the Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award and the Red Maple Award. Born in India, Gilmore moved to London, England, at the age of 14, and now lives in Ottawa. She also writes adult fiction under the pseudonym Rachna Mara. Visit her online at www.rachnagilmore.ca.

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Alice Priestley has illustrated numerous books including five other children’s stories. Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay was shortlisted for a Mr. Christie Book Award and the Amelia Frances Gibbon Award. Her other books include Winning the Girl of the Sea, The Watcher, Clouds on the Mountain and Someone’s Reading This Book. She lives in Toronto with her husband and children.

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Recommended Age and Grade

Age:: 5 to 8
Grade:: k to 3

Awards

Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Book

Lights for Gita

by Rachna Gilmore, illustrated by Alice Priestley

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