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Many Things At Once

ISBN-10: 0593643909
ISBN-13: 9780593643907
Author: Hiranandani, Veera
Illustrated by: Alam, Nadia
Interest Level: K-3
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: January 2025

Copyright: 2025

Page Count: 40

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Interest Level

Grades K-3

Reading Level

Guided Reading: O
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.6
Accelerated Reader Points: 0.5

Description
In this poignant picture book about family and belonging, the child of a Jewish mother and a South Asian father hears stories about her family history. Sometimes she doesn't feel Jewish enough or South Asian enough, but comes to realize you can feel--and be--many things at once. Based on the author's own family history, here is a moving story about a young girl from two different backgrounds. The girl's mother tells her stories about her mother, a Jewish seamstress in Brooklyn, New York. She lived in a tiny two-bedroom apartment and sewed wedding dresses shimmering in satin and lace. Her father tells stories of his mother, the girl's other grandmother, who liked to cook bubbling dal on a coal stove in Pakistan. They tell stories about how both sides came to America, and how, eventually, her parents met on a warm summer evening in Poughkeepsie. The girl sometimes feels as if she's the "only one like me." One day, when she spots a butterfly in her yard, she realizes it's okay to be different--no two butterflies are alike, after all. It's okay to feel alone sometimes, but also happy and proud. It's okay to feel-- and be-- many things at once.
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