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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Obayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh. Now Obayda is Obayd. Life in this in-between place is confusing,...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
""The picnic of the red flower" is a traditional time of celebration for Afghans. One of Nelofer Pazira's earliest memories is of people gathering in the countryside to admire the tulips and poppies carpeting the landscape. It is the mid-1970s, and her parents are building a future for themselves and their young children in the city of Kabul." "But when Nelofer is just five the Communists take power and her father, a respected doctor, is imprisoned...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Collection of literary reportage from Afghanistan: stories that go unreported, the lives of people not usually considered newsworthy or important, people who struggle just to survive"--
In this collection of literary reportage from Afghanistan, Garcia shows us how the Afghan War looked to Afghans. Reporting from Kabul and Kandahar from 2001 to 2015, during years of occupation and war, Garcia presents a complex portrait of human resilience as the...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Razia is excited when her grandfather tells her there's a school for girls being built in their Afghan village. At last, girls will have the same opportunity to be educated as boys. 'Every night I fell asleep dreaming about going to school like my brothers,' she says. Her grandfather wants Razia to enroll in the school. He remembers a time, before the wars and the Taliban, when educated women in Afghanistan became doctors, government workers and...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Edward Girardet discusses his experiences as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan over the last thirty years, including the Soviet invasion, the Taliban gaining control, the American occupation, and interviews with such people as Osama bin Laden, Islamist extremist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Ahmed Shah Massoud.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age. As a son, she can attend school, go to the market, and chaperone her older sisters. But Rahima is not the first in her family to adopt this unusual...
Author
Publisher
Samuel Wachtman's Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia leader in the United States. Each week, he counted the number of bodies he was responsible for. Each week, he counted the number of women he had slept with. But that was forty years ago. Today, he counts the number of pills he takes and the pennies left over from his small Social Security check so he might buy a cheap set of dentures - not covered by Medicare. Life is pretty awful. Twenty...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Si pierdes todo lo que amas, ¿cómo sobrevivir y empezar de nuevo? La casa del almendro cuenta la historia de una familia de refugiados que escapa del conflicto y la guerra en Afganistán en la década de 1990, e inicia un largo viaje en busca de libertad y seguridad.
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A woman's fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores their identity in a moment of quiet. A petition writer reflects on his life as a dog lies nursing her puppies. A tormented girl tries to find love through a horrific act. A headmaster makes his way to work, treading the fine line between life and death. Eighteen writers tell stories that are both unique and universal - stories of family, work, childhood, friendship, war, gender...
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