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Sitti's Secrets Reprint Edition
Contributor(s): Nye, Naomi Shihab (Author), Carpenter, Nancy (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 0689817061     ISBN-13: 9780689817069
Publisher: Aladdin Publishing Company (CO)
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1997
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Annotation: When Sitti, an American girl, goes to visit her grandmother in her small Middle Eastern village on the other side of the world, they don't need words to understand each other's heart. Full color.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - Middle East
Dewey: E
LCCN: 93019742
Age Level: 5-8
Grade Level: Kindergarten-3
Lexile Measure: 650 AD (Adult Directed Text)
Series: Aladdin Picture Books
Physical Information: 0.1" H x 8.74" W x 10.18" L (0.32 lbs) 32 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 18692
Reading Level: 3.9   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Publisher Description:
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance.

Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her.

The couldn't speak each other's language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other's worlds, and they discovered each other's secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever.


Contributor Bio(s): Carpenter, Nancy: - Nancy Carpenter is the acclaimed illustrator of Fannie in the Kitchen, as well as Masai and I, Sitti's Secrets, and Loud Emily, among other books. She lives with her husband, daughter, and cat in Brooklyn, New York.Nye, Naomi Shihab: - Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems include Fuel, Red Suitcase, and Words Under the Words. A Guggenheim fellow, she is also the author of the young adult novel Habibi, which was named an ALA Notable Book, a Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award as well as the Book Publishers of Texas award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Naomi lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Michael, and their son, Madison.
 
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