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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
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Clements, Andrew
Elliott, Mark

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Series: Junior Library Guild Selection

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1416949291
ISBN13: 9781416949299
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Jun 23 2009
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Awards: Beehive Awards, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, Christopher Awards, Delaware Diamonds Award, Georgia Children's Book Award, Golden Sower Award, Grand Canyon Reader Award, Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award, Land of Enchantment Book Award, Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award, Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Middle East Book Awards, Nutmeg Book Award, Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award, Sequoyah Book Awards, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award, Volunteer State Book Awards, West Virginia Children's Book Award, William Allen White Childens Book Award
It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork. She just doesn't like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade--unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant country. Seems simple enough. But when Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, the village elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well. In English. And the only qualified student is a boy, Sadeed Bayat. Except in this village, it is not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So Sadeed's younger sister will write the letters. Except she knows hardly any English. So Sadeed must write the letters. For his sister to sign. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is . . . unhealthy? Not so simple. But as letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions--a small group of children begin to speak and listen to one another. And in just a few short weeks, they make important discoveries about their communities, about their world, and most of all, about themselves.

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