Region: Bangladesh

Yasmin’s Hammer

By Book Importer | Published: July 23, 2010

A young Bangladeshi girl who helps support her family by working in a brickyard finds a way to make her dream of going to school and learning to read a reality. Click here to read the Worlds of Words review.

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Ask Me No Questions

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Nadira and her family are illegal aliens, fleeing to the Canadian border — running from the country they thought was their home. For years since emigrating from Bangladesh, they have lived on expired visas in New York City, hoping they could someday realize their dream of becoming legal citizens of the United States. But after [...]

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Rickshaw Girl

By auraenid | Published: June 11, 2007

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy or disguise herself as one. Bangladesh is a country in South Asia surrounded by India.

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