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"Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi. Too poor to go to school, she makes a meager living for herself and her grandmother by selling things she finds at the garbage dump. The pages of the glossy magazines she finds at the dump are full of pictures of beautif...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA :
Orca Book Publishers,
2012.
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| Series: | Orca young reader.
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| Summary: | "Life is hard for ten-year-old Safiyah in the Kibera slum outside Nairobi. Too poor to go to school, she makes a meager living for herself and her grandmother by selling things she finds at the garbage dump. The pages of the glossy magazines she finds at the dump are full of pictures of beautiful people doing things Safiyah can only dream about. But the magazines also inspire Safiyah to create something that may give her and Cucu the chance of a better life"--P. [4] of cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages ; 19 cm. Issued also in electronic formats. |
| ISBN: | 9781459800519 1459800516 |