02073cam a2200337 i 4500 789949983 TxAuBib 20230809120000.0 221229s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022952417 9780063098664 HRD 19.99 0063098660 HRD 19.99 TxAuBib rda Riazi, Karuna, author. A bit of Earth [BOOK] / Karuna Riazi. First edition. New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. 356 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember - first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to "give her a better life" in the United States, Maria is shipped to a host family across the world. When Maria arrives on Long Island, things are not quite what she was expecting. Mr. Clayborne has left on an extended business trip, Mrs. Clayborne seems emotionally fraught, and inexplicable things keep happening in the Claybornes' sprawling house. And then Maria finds a locked gate to an off-limits garden. Since she's never been good at following rules, Maria decides to investigate and discovers something she never thought she'd find: a place where she feels at home Provided by publisher. 20230809. Pakistanis Juvenile fiction. Families Juvenile fiction. Homesickness Juvenile fiction. Gardens Juvenile fiction. Muslim girls Juvenile fiction. Orphans Juvenile fiction. Long Island (N.Y) Juvenile fiction.