The Arabic Quilt An Immigrant Story

Author: Aya Khalil; Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator)

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Price : $29.99 AUD
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ISBN : 9780884487548
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers
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Weight (g) : 0.471736
Publication date : 18 February 2020
Dimensions : .4 Inches X 9.4 Inches X 10.4 Inches
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Author : Aya Khalil; Anait Semirdzhyan (Illustrator)
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Language : English
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Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her father has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt her teita (grandma) in Cairo gave her and writes a poem in Arabic about the quilt. The next day her teacher sees the poem and gets the entire class excited about creating a "quilt" (a paper collage) of student names in Arabic. In the end, Kanzi's most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.

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