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A sky-blue bench / written by Bahram Rahman ; illustrated by Peggy Collins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto, ON : Pajama Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • School children
ISBN:
  • 9781772782226
  • 177278222X
  • 9780800024017
  • 080002401X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 [E] 23
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Summary: 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. -- Provided by publisher.
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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. -- Provided by publisher.

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