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The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky / Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary.

by Ahmedi, Farah.

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New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2005.

Refugees -- United States -- Biography

Refugees -- Afghanistan -- Biography.

Land mine victims -- Afghanistan -- Biography.

Afghans -- United States -- Biography.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005012067.html

1416906703 (alk. paper)

Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope. She was taken from a childhood in Afghanistan, where the classrooms are naked chambers with only chalkboards on the walls and are filled with more students than seats (and no books), to a Chicago adolescence, where teenagers struggle to decide whether to try out for school plays, whom to take to the homecoming dance, and where to go to college. This story was selected from hundreds submitted to ABC's Good Morning America.

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