Sitti's Secrets (Reprint)
What's This Book About
A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona’s grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn’t speak each other’s language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other’s worlds, and they discovered each other’s secrets. Then it was time for Mona to go back home, back to the other side of the earth. But even though there were millions of miles and millions of people between them, they remained true neighbors forever.
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Nancy Carpenter is the illustrator of more than 40 children’s books and has received numerous honors for her work, including two Christopher Awards and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780689817069
- Publication Date
- October 1, 1997
- Page Count
- 32
- Reading Age
- 5 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 93019742
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 51588602
- Lexile® Level
- AD650L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~P
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.9
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 18692
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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