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]

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

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.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
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

Browsing Greater Project 4 Branch shelves, Shelving location: Reference Section, Collection: Circulation Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	C 910.202 Sc387o 2015 1,000 places to see before you die	C 917.304 H127g 2001 Granny D : walking across America in my ninetieth year	C 917.304 R524z 2009 Zen and now : on the trail of Robert Pirsig and the art of motorcycle maintenance	C 92 Ah286s 2005 The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky	C 92 Al466e 1995 The eagle and the rose : a remarkable true story	C 92 An567h 2008 Home : a memoir of my early years	C 92 An628m 2009 Mass casualties : a young medic's true story of death, deception, and dishonor in Iraq	Next

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Click on an image to view it in the image viewer