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Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell.
Publisher
Principle Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS goes inside the very first girls' school in one small Afghan village. Never before have fathers here allowed their daughters to obtain an education. From the school's beginnings in 2009 to the girls' first graduation in 2015, filmmaker Beth Murphy embeds herself in this community for a most-intimate look at what it really means to be a girl growing up in Afghanistan today, and what it takes to change...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A searing, deeply personal memoir of a tenacious Afghan girl who educated herself behind closed doors and fought her way to a new life. Sola Mahfouz was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1996. That same year, the Taliban took over her country for the first time. They banned television and photographs, presided over brutal public executions, and turned the clock backwards on women's rights, practically imprisoning women within their own homes and...
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