This week, I am covering the Junior Library. There are not so many returns but some shelving to do. I was helping to shelf the non-fiction collection and stumbled upon one of my favourite books - which I used to storytell to the tweens; Anansi the Spider.
I love the whole story and hence, the entry for the award winners and great beginning for this blog.
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I read this book last year and was touched by the story. Being denied a proper childhood and education for girls is hard to imagine. Minoui has successfully describes the events and feelings of Nujood as a child bride, being abused & cheated, her anxiety to tell her story and her burning passion to go to school to became a lawyer like Shada. But her story didn't end just there.... according to The Guardian, her father squandered her money from her books to marry off her younger sister, Haifa. It is disheartening that true story doesn't always ended up with a happy ending - though in her book, Nujood gets what she wanted - go to school and being divorced; but in real life, her sister is about to relive Nujood's 'hell' once more.
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Who am I?An autism SAHM. Mommy to #3kiddosunder5. A wife to an adoring husband (a.k.a a Trekkie & a hardcore LOTR fan). Currently taking a break from my full-time job (as a Librarian and maker) to taste the livelihood of a 'tai-tai'. Categories
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