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Gr 4–8—Friendship transcends cultural and generational differences in this deeply moving novel. It's been six years since Aman and his mother escaped a nightmarish existence under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for a better life in England. However, their request for asylum is denied, and they're sent to an immigration detention center to await deportation. After several appeals for release go unheeded, they begin to lose hope. Aman's best friend, Matt, shares the tragic details with his journalist grandfather in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

As Aman, a young asylum seeker from Bamiyan, Afghanistan, sits in a British detention center waiting to be deported, his best friend Matt is determined to help. Matt tells his retired-journalist grandfather of Aman’s plight and persuades him to visit Aman in the deportation center. There Aman tells Matt’s grandfather the story about the talented spaniel (he could sniff out IEDs) he once saved in the caves of Bam...Log In or Sign Up to Read More