You Bring the Distant Near
by Mitali Perkins
Three generations of women in a Bengali American family are given voice in this expansive... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Humor
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
- South Asian
- Asian American
Year Published 2017
Word Count 62,091
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 720L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 192420, 9.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Immigrants
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | Multigenerational
- Young Adult Fiction | Humorous | General
- New York
- East Indian Americans--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction
- New York (State)
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
- East Indian Americans
- Family life
- Immigrants--Fiction
- Families
- New York (N.Y.)
- Young Adult Fiction
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Awards & Distinctions 8

Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature, 2016-2022
Honor, 2018

South Asia Book Award for Children's & Young Adult Literature, 2012-2021
Winner, 2018

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2021
Audiobooks Selection, 2018

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2018

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2021
City Selection, 2017

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2021
Selection, 2017

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001 - 2021
Selection, 2017
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