Four Feet, Two Sandals

When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab whatever they can. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly, until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. Soon Lina and Feroza meet, each wearing one coveted sandal. Together they solve the problem of having four feet and two sandals. As the girls go about their routines – washing clothes in the river, waiting in long lines for water, and watching for their names to appear on the list to go to America – the sandals remind them that friendship is what is most important.

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  1. Christina Johnson
    Posted December 5, 2011 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    Wow! What a wonderful story. I read this story with my third graders and I had to wipe a tear from my eye as I finished the book. This was a great story to share with my students because some know someone who is fighting in Afghanistan but they really don’t know what life is like for those people who are refugees. My students loved predicting and inferring what the sandals really meant to the girls. As a class we came to the conclusion the sandals represented friendship and freedom. My class is hoping that Feroza and everyone like her gets put on the list to come to America.

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