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01986aam a2200277 4500 001 3D5D09D4A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230207010047 020 $a 1772782653 020 $a 9781772782653 040 $a B&T $d SILO 100 $a Rahman, Bahram 245 $a Library bus 264 1 $a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : $b Pajama Press Inc, $c 2022. 300 $a 1 volume (unpaged) ; $c 26 cm. 520 $a It is still dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the library bus rumbles out of the city. There are no bus seatsinstead there are chairs and tables and shelves of books. And there are no passengersinstead there is Pari, who is nervously starting her first day as Mamas library helper. Pari stands tall to hand out notebooks and pencils at the villages and the refugee camp, but she feels intimidated. The girls they visit are learning to write English from Mama. Pari cant even read or write in Farsi yet. But next year she will go to school and learn all there is to know. And she is so lucky. Not long ago, Mama tells her, girls were not allowed to read at all. 520 $a Author Bahram Rahman grew up in Afghanistan during years of civil war and the restrictive Taliban regime of 19962001. He wrote The Library Bus to tell new generations about the struggles of women who, like his own sisters, were forbidden to learn. Brought to life by the pensive and captivating art of award-winning illustrator Gabrielle Grimard, The Library Bus is a celebration of literacy, ingenuity, and the strength of women and girls demanding a future for themselves. 651 $a Afghanistan $x Juvenile fiction. 650 $a Poverty $v Juvenile fiction. 650 $a Homelessness $v Juvenile fiction. 650 $a Refugees $v Juvenile fiction. 650 $a Libraries $v Juvenile fiction. 008 s2022 941 $a 1 952 $l ZBPE245 $d 20230207012626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3D5D09D4A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search