Razia's Ray of Hope: One Girl's Dream of an Education

by Elizabeth Suneby

Book Overview

Razia is excited when her grandfather tells her there's a school for girls being built in their Afghan village. At last, girls will have the same opportunity to be educated as boys. "Every night I fell asleep dreaming about going to school like my brothers," she says. Her grandfather wants Razia to enroll in the school. He remembers a time, before the wars and the Taliban, when educated women in Afghanistan became doctors, government workers and journalists,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554538165
• ISBN13: 9781554538164
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7