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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Clements, Andrew, 1949-     Subjects     Letters -- Juvenile fiction.     Pen pals -- Juvenile fiction.     Families -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.     Families -- Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.     Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.     Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Clements, Andrew, 1949-       by title:      Extra credit [electr...         MARC Display

Extra credit [electronic resource] / Andrew Clements. by Clements, Andrew, 1949- [S.l.] : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2012. Subjects Letters -- Juvenile fiction.   Pen pals -- Juvenile fiction.   Families -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.   Families -- Illinois -- Juvenile fiction.   Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.   Illinois -- Juvenile fiction. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=6EC1636B-A784-4611-A7A0-192319F2487C This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{6EC1636B-A784-4611-A7A0-192319F2487C}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781416995203 (electronic book) 141699520X (electronic book) Description:  1 online resource (224 p.) Requests:  0 Summary:  It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork. She just doesn't like doing it. And in February a warning letter arrives at her home. Abby will have to repeat sixth grade--unless she meets some specific conditions, including taking on an extra-credit project to find a pen pal in a distant country. Seems simple enough. But when Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, the village elders agree that any letters going back to America must be written well. In English. And the only qualified student is a boy, Sadeed Bayat. Except in this village, it is not proper for a boy to correspond with a girl. So Sadeed?'s younger sister will write the letters. Except she knows hardly any English. So Sadeed must write the letters. For his sister to sign. But what about the villagers who believe that girls should not be anywhere near a school? And what about those who believe that any contact with Americans is . . . unhealthy? Not so simple. But as letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of central Asia, across cultural and religious divides, through the minefields of different lifestyles and traditions--a small group of children begin to speak and listen to one another. And in just a few short weeks, they make important discoveries about their communities, about their world, and most of all, about themselves.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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