Razia's Ray of Hope Bookfair Readers clap my hands

clap my hands

To twelve-year-old Molly Nathans

Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town

and when a blizzard starts blowing in across the tundra

Along with the birthday excitement and a great Chinese treat

Razia's Ray of Hope Bookfair Readers clap my handsRazia is excited when her grandfather tells her there's a school for girls being built in their Afghan village. At last, girls will have the same opportunity to be educated as boys. Every night I fell asleep dreaming about going to school like my brothers, she says. Her grandfather wants Razia to enroll in the school. He remembers a time, before the wars and the Taliban, when educated women in Afghanistan became doctors, government workers and