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Omar rising / Aisha Saeed.
"Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him<U+2014>the son of a servant<U+2014>with an opportunity to improve his station in life. He can't wait to experience all the school has to offer, especially science club and hopefully the soccer team; but when he arrives, his hopes are dashed. First-year scholarship students aren't allowed to join clubs or teams<U+2014>and not only that, they have to earn their keep doing menial chores. At first Omar is dejected<U+2014>but then he gets angry when he learns something even worse<U+2014>the school deliberately “weeds out” kids like him by requiring them to get significantly higher grades than kids who can pay tuition, making it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate. It's a good thing that in his favorite class, he's learned the importance of being stubbornly optimistic. So with the help of his tightknit new group of friends<U+2014>and with the threat of expulsion looming over him<U+2014>he sets out to do what seems impossible: change a rigged system. "--From publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 0593108582
- ISBN: 9780593108581
- Physical Description: 216 pages ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "When the system is broken you have to rise up!" --cover. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 23.99 |
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| Subject: | Boarding schools > Juvenile fiction. Schools > Juvenile fiction. Pakistan > Juvenile fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | J FIC Saeed | 31681020180543 | JFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Pakistan. - Baker & Taylor
While attending an elite boarding school on scholarship, Omar, the son of a servant, discovers the school makes it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate and sets out to do the impossibleâchange a rigged system. Simultaneous eBook. - Penguin Putnam
âIrresistibly appealing and genuinely inspiringâa story that helps us to see the world more clearly, and to see ourselves as powerful enough to change it.â âRebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award Winner When You Reach Me
In this compelling companion to New York Times bestseller Amal Unbound, Amal's friend Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school.
Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing himâthe son of a servantâwith an opportunity to improve his station in life. He can't wait to experience all the school has to offer, especially science club and hopefully the soccer team; but when he arrives, his hopes are dashed. First-year scholarship students aren't allowed to join clubs or teamsâand not only that, they have to earn their keep doing menial chores. At first Omar is dejectedâbut then he gets angry when he learns something even worseâthe school deliberately "weeds out" kids like him by requiring them to get significantly higher grades than kids who can pay tuition, making it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate. It's a good thing that in his favorite class, heâs learned the importance of being stubbornly optimistic. So with the help of his tightknit new group of friendsâand with the threat of expulsion looming over himâhe sets out to do what seems impossible: change a rigged system.
