IraqiGirl, diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
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IraqiGirl, diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
IraqiGirl
Medium
electronic resourceIraqiGirl.
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Sub title
diary of a teenage girl in Iraq
Summary
I feel that I have been sleeping all my life and I have woken up and opened my eyes to the world. A beautiful world! But impossible to live in. These are the words of fifteen-year-old Hadiya, blogging from the city of Mosul, Iraq, to let the world know what life is really like as the military occupation of her country unfolds. In many ways, her life is familiar. She worries about exams and enjoys watching Friends during the rare hours that the electricity in her neighborhood is running. But the horrors of war surround her everywhere-weeklong curfews, relatives killed, and friends whose families are forced to flee their homes. With black humor and unflinching honesty, Hadiya shares the painful stories of lives changed forever. "Let's go back," she writes, "to my un-normal life." With her intimate reflections on family, friendship, and community, IraqiGirl also allows us to witness the determination of one girl not only to survive, but to create, amidst the devastation of war, a future worth living for
Target audience
juvenile
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Iraqi girl
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