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The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky
Title:
The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky
Author:
Ahmedi, Farah.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, [2005]

©2005
Physical Description:
v, 249 pages ; 22 cm
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. This story was selected from hundreds submitted to ABC's Good Morning America.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
850 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 11.0 89008.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 5.5 18 Quiz: 48054.
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ISBN:
9781416906704

9781416918370
Format :
Book