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Hollingsworth, Alyssa. THE ELEVENTH TRADE New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2018. IL 5-8 ISBN 9781250155764 |
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Have you
heard the urban legend about the guy who traded a
paperclip for a pen and then the pen for something
bigger and kept trading and trading until he ended up
with a snowmobile? Or possibly a house? Or was it a role
in a movie? The Eleventh Trade is about trading up—not
just to get better stuff, but for family, honor, and
friendship. Sami and his grandfather, Baba, are survivors. They’ve had to leave everything behind in Afghanistan to start a new life in America. The only possession they have that links them to their past is Baba’s most prized possession, a traditional Afghan instrument called a rebab. And then in their first weeks in America, the rebab is stolen right out of Sami’s hands, leaving Sami feeling responsible for the loss and for adding to Baba’s grief. Desperate to make things right, Sami manages to track the rebab to a music shop, where it is for sale for $700. The shop owner grudgingly agrees to give Sami 4 weeks to buy it back. Sami doesn’t have any money, but he does have a key chain that a boy from his soccer team is willing to trade him for. Can Sami keep trading up to buy back the rebab in time? As he begins his quest, Sami learns he can trust his new friends to help him with the trades and he begins to adjust to his new life in America. (Book Talk by Amber Peterson, International Community School ) (Washington Evergreen Book Award nominee 2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Refugees -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Fiction. Grandfathers -- Fiction. Theft -- Fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Family -- Fiction. |
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