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01901cam a2200349 a 4500 001 93A6CC9256D911DFB46C8AF9A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20100503122515 008 071219s2008 onca j 000 j eng 020 $a 1894917561 020 $a 9781894917568 035 $a (OCoLC)185023100 040 $a NLC $b eng $c NLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d CDX $d CN8ML $d B@L $d IOV $d SILO 050 14 $a PS8571 H42 M36 2008 055 02 $a PS8571* 055 3 $a PS8571 H42 $b M36 2008 055 00 $a PS8571 H42 $b M36 2008 082 04 $a jC813/.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Khan, Rukhsana. 245 1 $a Many windows : $b six kids, five faiths, one community / $c by Rukhsana Khan, with Elisa Carbone and Uma Krishnaswami. 260 $a Toronto : $b Napoleon Pub., $c 2008. 300 $a 84 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Short stories. 520 $a Windows" is a collection of seven stories about six children who are in the same class at school, two white boys, a black girl, a Chinese girl, an Indian girl, and a Pakistani boy. They are not friends, but they all come together in one community at the end of the stories. Each story in the collection centers on a different celebration within the faith of that child, and in the appendix at the back of the book, each of the celebrations is explained in more depth, as it is celebrated within that faith community: Bhuddism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism. Each story represents a window into the life of the child, or, from a different point of view, the child's windowlooking out to the world. 650 0 $a Multiculturalism $v Juvenile fiction. 650 6 $a Multiculturalisme $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. 700 1 $a Carbone, Elisa Lynn. 700 1 $a Krishnaswami, Uma, $d 1956- 941 $a 1 952 $l UDAX314 $d 20100503145000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=93A6CC9256D911DFB46C8AF9A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search