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A sky-blue bench / wrtten by Bahram Rahman ; illustrated by Peggy Collins.
Record details
- ISBN: 20210241020
- ISBN: 9781772782226
- ISBN: 177278222X
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Pajama Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 22.95 |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | GRO JP Rahma | 31681020191953 | PICTURE | Checked out | 05/14/2025 |
- Baker & Taylor
Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. A sensitive author's note addresses the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines. -- - Ingram Publishing Services
It's Afghan schoolgirl Aria's first day back at school since her accident. She's excited, but she's also worried about sitting on the hard floor all day with her new prosthetic "helper-leg."
Just as Aria feared, sitting on the floor is so uncomfortable that she can't think about learning at all. She knows that before the war changed many things in Afghanistan, schools like hers had benches for students to sit at. If she had a bench, her leg would not hurt so much. The answer is obvious: she will gather materials, talk to Kaka Najar, the carpenter in the old city, and learn to build a bench for herself.
In A Sky-Blue Bench, Bahram Rahman, author of The Library Bus, returns again to the setting of his homeland, Afghanistan, to reveal the resilience and resolve of young childrenâespecially young girlsâwho face barriers to education. Illustrator Peggy Collins imbues Aria with an infectious spunkiness and grit that make her relatable even to readers with a very different school experience. An author's note gently introduces an age-appropriate discussion of landmines and their impact on the lives of children in many nations, especially Afghanistan, which has the highest concentration of landmines of any country in the world.
Don't miss The Library Bus, also by Bahram Rahman
- Winner of the Middle East Book Award
- Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award
- Finalist for the Florida Literary Association Children's Book Award
- Finalist for the OLA Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award
- Winner of the Northern Lights Book Award: Multicultural Category
- Ingram Publishing Services
A young Afghan amputee matter-of-factly removes her own barrier to education, building a bench from discarded wood so that she and her âhelper-legâ can sit through school in comfort.
