A Gift for Gita (Paperback), by Rachna Gilmore. This is a sweet book about a girl named Gita who moves from India with her family. The story begins with a gift that her grandmother ("Naniji") has brought her from India - a set of nesting dolls. Naniji's visit is nearing its end when Gita's Papa receives a letter notifying him of a job offer back in India. Gita realizes that the U.S. is her home now. "When had she stopped missing India? When she and Amy became friends? When she first skated on the frozen canal? Gita opened her doll, took out the next one and the next, right down to the centre. It was like that inside her, so many moments, different parts of her - making the baseball team, camping in the Rockies, her first taste of pizza, planting roses with Mr. Finch next door . . . India was now a blur of distant colour and voices, an echo. Here was full and clear, loud and now. Home." Gita's family feels the same way, and decides to stay in the U.S. Gita asks her Naniji to stay with them, but she explains that her home is in India (see excerpt). They have a sweet goodbye, in which Gita is assured that part of of her Naniji is always with her.Excerpt:
"Naniji smoothed Gita's hair. 'My home's back in India,' she said softly. 'I love it there, just as you love it here. It's where I belong. All the parts of my life are there, and all my memories - everything except you.' 'You can make new memories. Here.' 'I already have. To take back and keep with the ones I have of you there.' Gita tried to smile. Naniji always smiled when saying goodbye, she never cried."
Bookworm's interest at 22 months: None really. He's too young. Reading level: ages 4-8 .
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