A Girl Called Problem

  • Type: Books
  • By: Katie Quirk
  • Age Category: Children
  • Genre: General Fiction
  • Recommended by: Rose M.
  • ISBN/UPC: 9780802854049
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If you educate a woman, you educate a nation. - Liberian Proverb

Shida, whose name means "problem" in Swahili has a lot on her shoulders. At thirteen she is trying to take care of her mother and grandfather. She wants to go to school and learn to be a nurse but many in her village do not think girls should go to school. At times a heartbreaking book but still filled with a hopeful and promising outcome.