This book would be great for Intermediate readers
It is about these two children in Bangladesh that desire to go to school, but have to work in order to help provide for their family. It provides greater perspective of life in other parts of the world and gives insight the lack of accessibility of education for many families
This book would be a good one to use if you are doing cultural lessons, or are talking about education as a whole. It could provide greater perspective as to the difference between school in America and in different countries.

This book is appropriate for primary readers.
This book is about a young girls experience desiring and pursuing an education despite living in poverty.
This book would be useful in teaching about the value of education.

This book would be good for Primary level. This book is about a little girl named Yasmin, who live in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Throughout the story she dreams of going to school but once their house gets destroyed from a cyclone she has to move to the city to work for her family splitting bricks. It shows her struggle of working harder and harder every day to one day go to school, until she was able to at the end of the story. This would be a great book in the classroom to talk about different cultures and perspectives. ( )

This primary aged book that brings up some serious topics about real life outside of the classroom. These kids are having to work at such a young age to be able to live their life. The overall goal in this book is that the kids want to go to school and learn how to read and write. When this dream finally comes true, they are super excited ( )

This book is good for primary and 3rd grade students. There are a lot of words so for younger grades it would be good for a read aloud.
This book is about a little girl, her home gets flooded and taken away by the water. She has to move into the city to make more money and find work for her family. Her and her sister work together hammering bricks. She day dreams all day about reading and how if she knew how to read she could be a teacher, or doctor. She saves up money and goes to the local library and grabs a book. She rushed home to show her family and non of them can read. Her father says "they have to go to school soon". Yasmin is very excited and hopes and dreams that she will be able to go soon. She ends up being able to go to school and learn to read.
This book is great. I would like to have this in my classroom library. It shows children that reading is important and that some other children don't get to be in schools. Education and reading is really important and this book celebrates that. ( )