"Marabout Ahmed, is a highly regarded Koranic teacher who runs a religious school for young boys in the capital city where Ibrahimah is sent to join his cousin Etienne to study for a year--the local custom for many families. Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves swiping pastries from his mother's kitchen, ha
No Heaven For Good Boys
β Scribed by Keisha Bush
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 466 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0399591966
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β¦ Synopsis
**Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love, and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive.
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"I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason." --Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother's kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Γtienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah's parents imagine, the young...
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