Mitali Perkins, "Golden Necklace"

It’s December 8. Welcome back to the Kids’ Short Story Advent Calendar—a box set full of excitement and mystery for younger readers to enjoy on the days counting down to Christmas.

Learn more about today’s author:

Mitali Perkins is the author of many books for young readers, including Home Is in Between, You Bring the Distant Near (nominated for a National Book Award), and Rickshaw Girl (adapted into a film by Sleeperwave Productions), all of which explore crossing different kinds of borders. Mitali writes fiction about poverty, immigration, child soldiers, microcredit, and human trafficking, thanks to living overseas for many years and studying political science at Stanford and public policy at U.C. Berkeley. Her goal is to make readers laugh or cry, preferably both, as long as their hearts are widening. Originally from India, she lives and writes in the East Bay.

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