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Yasmin's hammer

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, as two girls work hard all day to help support their family by chipping bricks into small pieces, older sister Yasmin seeks a way to attend school and learn to read so that she can have a better life one day. Includes author's note about conditions in Bangladesh, child labor, and how to help.
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Yasmin's hammer

In Dhaka, Bangladesh, as two girls work hard all day to help support their family by chipping bricks into small pieces, older sister Yasmin seeks a way to attend school and learn to read so that she can have a better life one day. Includes author's note about conditions in Bangladesh, child labor, and how to help.

Beloved strangers

a memoir
A memoir of the author's life growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with a dissatisfied mother and distant father, college years in America, failed marriage, and attempts to come to terms with love, freedom, and self-acceptance.

Yasmin's hammer

2010
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, as two girls work hard all day to help support their family by chipping bricks into small pieces, older sister Yasmin seeks a way to attend school and learn to read so that she can have a better life one day. Includes author's note about conditions in Bangladesh, child labor, and how to help.

Bangladesh

1991
A child living in Dacca describes everyday life, foods, transportation, occupations, celebrations, and floods in Bangladesh.
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