I like this book because it's one of those interesting books that takes place in modern day. My review of this story takes place In modern day Burma, Chiko (main character) is looking for a job, to be a teacher), he tells his mom but she doesn't want him in danger. Finally she lets him go, when h...
This book is about two sisters who live in India and they are different in every way possible. The sister called Reet is beautiful, feminine, curvy, sweet and patient (everything that was expected from a teenage girl in 1974 India).The other sister called Asha is everything a girl is not supposed...
In First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover, Sameera showed the United States it was ready for a Pakistani-born First Daughter. With her brains and bravado, she helped her dad win the presidential election. Now she’s living in the White House. Fabulous! Right? Actually, it’s no fairy tale. The S...
We had the soundtrack to prove the first: classic Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin renditions of “Young, Gifted and Black.” That song was as much a part of my regular diet as the lumpy and not-sweet-enough porridge I had for breakfast many mornings. My mom was an Excellence for Black Children moth...
She hadn’t come to work because of my visit to the orphanage, but she’d left plenty for us to eat. I took another sip of the bitter tea Mom had made, keeping my face expressionless, but Mom sighed.“Nobody makes tea like Danita,” she said. “I’ve got to learn how before we leave.”“You have to add t...