BookDragon Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan Tag

06 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Afghan, Children/Picture Books, Nonfiction

Nasreen watches her father being taken away by the Taliban, then loses her mother when she goes out in search of her disappeared husband. Left alone with her grandmother, Nasreen retreats into silence. Her desperate grandmother enrolls Nasreen in a secret school for girls, risking...