BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;South Asia Book\nAwa rd for Children’s and Young Adult Literature presentsMeet the Winners\nDis cussion Series\n\nJoin\nus to celebrate the 2020 South Asia Book Award win ners! Through a series of\nvirtual discussions\, we will get to know these authors\, their award-winning\ntitles\, and how these books can be used t o learn about and teach about South Asia in\nour schools\, libraries\, and homes. \;This \;discussion\nfeatures Mitali Bose Perkins\, who wo n the 2020 SABA Award for her book \;You\nBring the Distant Near \ ;(Farrar Straus Giroux\, 2019). This book tells the\nstory of Robin\, Kat and Gracie who travel to Kolkata\, India with their church\ngroup to help girls who have been rescued from trafficking but find that they\nare the o nes whose lives are changed. \;Mitali\nPerkins \;has\nwritten many books for young readers\, all of which explore crossing different\nkinds of borders. Mitali's fiction explores poverty\, immigration\, child\nsoldi ers\, microcredit\, and human trafficking\, thanks to living overseas for\ nmany years and studying Political Science at Stanford and Public Policy a t U.C.\nBerkeley. Her goal is to make readers laugh or cry\, preferably bo th\, as long as\ntheir hearts are widening. She lives and writes in the Ea st Bay.Click here to registerIf you have any\nquestions or wish to request accommodations\, please email Emera Bridger Wilson\n(elbridge@syr.edu).&n bsp\;\n\n DTEND:20201030T000000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T102145Z DTSTART:20201029T230000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Meet the South Asia Book Award Winners: Mitali Perkins UID:RFCALITEM638472901051556260 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;
South Asia Book\nAward for Children’s and Young Adult Literature pr esents
This \;discussion\nfeatures Mitali Bose Perkins\, who won the 2020 SABA Award for her book \;You\nBring the Distant N ear \;(Farrar Straus Giroux\, 2019). This book tells the\nstory of Robin\, Kat and Gracie who travel to Kolkata\, India with their church\ng roup to help girls who have been rescued from trafficking but find that th ey\nare the ones whose lives are changed. \;
Mitali\nPerkins \;has\nwritten many bo oks for young readers\, all of which explore crossing different\nkinds of borders. Mitali's fiction explores poverty\, immigration\, child\nsoldiers \, microcredit\, and human trafficking\, thanks to living overseas for\nma ny years and studying Political Science at Stanford and Public Policy at U .C.\nBerkeley. Her goal is to make readers laugh or cry\, preferably both\ , as long as\ntheir hearts are widening. She lives and writes in the East Bay.
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