Reading List For Participatory Citizenship: Four Feet Two Sandals

 

Literacy and NCTE

See What the NCTE (National Council of Teacher of English) Official Blog has to say about Four Feet Two Sandals:

Four Feet, Two Sandals
by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed 1-5

This book is a great way to introduce children to the realities of living in a refugee camp, why people are refugees, and then relate it to their own lives. A ten year old girl named Lina ends up sharing a pair of sandals with a girl named Feroza, since there are not enough sandals for everyone. These two characters experience the hardships of life in a refugee camp: waiting on long lines for water, the hard journey that brought them there, the fear for their futures, no access to education, among other obstacles. This is a book that will get children thinking about the hardships faced by people in other parts of the world.

See what other great books are on the list and start reading!

http://blogs.ncte.org/index.php/2017/05/reading-list-for-summer-in-participatory-citizenship/

BTW I will be at the NCTE 2017 National Convention in St. Louis in November!  Hope to see you there.