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The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story | Aya Khalil
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LibrarianRyan
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4.5 ⭐This is a story about an Egyptian American girl who is going to an American school in the third grade for the first time. She becomes a little embarrassed by both her lunch and her language being something the kids don‘t know. With the encouragement of the teacher, she uses her grandmother‘s quilt to help show everybody that language is unique, beautiful, amazing, and helps make everybody friendlier.

LibrarianRyan The class, then learns to make all their names in Arabic and the teacher makes a paper quilt to show the rest of the school. The idea is so fantastic that a neighboring classroom does the same thing, but in Japanese script to match a student in that class. This story is lovely. In the US, it is rare for most schools to teach separate languages from early ages. But this book reminds all that language is a beautiful thing and just because it doesn‘t 6mo
LibrarianRyan sound American doesn‘t mean it isn‘t, as most American words derive from other languages. 6mo
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GatheringBooks
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#NovemberNarrative Day 3: Kanzi is a young Egyptian American poet. Kanzi secretly wished her father would pack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for her instead of a kofta sandwich; #SandwichDay - she also turns the radio volume of the Arabic radio channel down as she and her mother are near her school. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-njG

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🙌🏻🥪💙 1y
Eggs Perfect🧡🥪👏🏻 1y
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Kerrbearlib
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Banned at Central York High in Pennsylvania in 2021. They banned a long list of BIPOC authors. The ban was eventually overturned.

#bbrc

LibrarianRyan That sucks. this look interesting. 2y
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Sharpeipup
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“Learning different languages makes a person smarter and kinder”

#childrensbook

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megnews
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A touching story about language,appreciating diversity and being kind. Recommended for classrooms everywhere.