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Cunnane, Kelly.
CHIRCHIR IS SINGING
New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011
IL K-3, RL 2.2
ISBN 0375961984
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Chirchir lives in Kenya but she is probably a lot like you.  She wants to help her mother do her chores.  But Chirchir isn't quite big enough to handle getting the water out of the well.  So she is off to help someone else and finds that she is not big enough to help with many of the household tasks.  All the time she is helping, she sings a sweet song.  Will Chirchir ever find anything she is good at?
SUBJECTS:     Family life -- Kenya -- Fiction.
                        Villages -- Fiction.
                        Singing -- Fiction.
                        Kenya -- Fiction.
                        Picture books for children.

 
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