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Wanting Mor (Paperback)
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Wanting Mor (Paperback)
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Loot Price R204
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Winner of the Middle East Book Award, Youth Fiction category
Jameela lives with her mother and father in Afghanistan. Despite
the fact that there is no school in their poor, war-torn village,
and Jameela lives with a birth defect that has left her with a
cleft lip, she feels relatively secure, sustained by her faith and
the strength of her beloved mother, Mor. But when Mor suddenly
dies, Jameela's father impulsively decides to seek a new life in
Kabul. He remarries, a situation that turns Jameela into a virtual
slave to her demanding stepmother. When the stepmother discovers
that Jameela is trying to learn to read, she urges her father to
simply abandon the child in Kabul's busy marketplace. Jameela ends
up in an orphanage. Throughout it all, it is the memory of Mor that
anchors her and in the end gives Jameela the strength to face her
father and stepmother when fate brings them into her life again.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on
specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's
point of view influences how events are described.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story's or
drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the
characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point
of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
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