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The Library Bus

The Library Bus

Grimard, Gabrielle
Rahman, Bahram

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1772781010
ISBN13: 9781772781014
Publisher: Pajama Press
Published: Nov 24 2020
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.30 Depth: 10.20
Language: English

Author Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who, like his own sister, were forbidden to learn.

It is still dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the library bus rumbles out of the city. There are no bus seats--instead there are chairs and tables and shelves of books. And there are no passengers--instead there is Pari, who is nervously starting her first day as Mama's library helper. Pari stands tall to hand out notebooks and pencils at the villages and the refugee camp, but she feels intimidated. The girls they visit are learning to write English from Mama. Pari can't even read or write in Farsi yet. But next year she will go to school and learn all there is to know. And she is so lucky. Not long ago, Mama tells her, girls were not allowed to read at all.

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