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Gr 4–6—A collection of short stories comprised of 11 tales set in different countries. In each story, a child encounters some form of social injustice and overcomes it or finds a positive outcome through some action on their part, however small. Each chapter features and is named for a specific type of chair. In "The Singing Chair," Jafar, a child laborer in a chair factory, longs to go to school. He scratches a poem on the bottom of a chair being shipped out and feels emancipated ("With this chair, I am here."). In "The Question...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Whether confounding, mean-spirited, or occasionally kind, the actions of adults are the focus of these short stories that all begin ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More