(2) YA After Idi Amin announces that all Indians will be expelled from Uganda, Sabine's uncle disappears. Writing partly from her own experience, the author creates a strong sensory background for the setting while making the complex set of societal and personal relationships in Sabine's life clear. Nanji gives readers a look at a terrifying time and place in history that resonates today.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2008

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Christopher Corr. With intensely colored gouache paintings that dance off the pages, this collection of stories from India entices readers to enter the worlds of the Hindu gods and goddesses, kings and queens, and the ordinary people who inhabit towns and villages. An introduction about India's history begins the book, and each tale is prefaced by information about the Indian state where it's from. Bib.

Reviewer: Melinda Greenblatt