The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky / Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary

By:

Ahmedi, Farah [author]

Contributor(s):

Ansary, Tamim [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, [2005]Description: v, 249 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1416906703

Other title:

The other side of the sky : a memoir [Cover title]

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Summary: Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope. She was taken from a childhood in Afghanistan, where the classrooms are naked chambers with only chalkboards on the walls and are filled with more students than seats (and no books), to a Chicago adolescence, where teenagers struggle to decide whether to try out for school plays, whom to take to the homecoming dance, and where to go to college.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 92 Ah286s 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	120272d

Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope. She was taken from a childhood in Afghanistan, where the classrooms are naked chambers with only chalkboards on the walls and are filled with more students than seats (and no books), to a Chicago adolescence, where teenagers struggle to decide whether to try out for school plays, whom to take to the homecoming dance, and where to go to college.

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