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Naomi Shihab Nye: Tiny Journalist (2019, BOA Editions, Limited) No rating

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Who's remembering Yemen had the most amazing architecture in the world?

Yeminis remember. No one mentions this on the news. Bomb explodes, bus of schoolchildren. Their glory also unmentioned.

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Sometimes I just call out to Dubai. Dubai! I say. If you can build new buildings like that, can't you help us?

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We stood in the parking lot of the hospital after Daddy died.

I couldn't remember how to open a car door.

— Tiny Journalist by  (Page 80)

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She is holding the book close to her body,
carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk,
down the tangled hill.
If a dog runs at her again, she will use the book as a shield.

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She is carrying a book past the fire station
and the five and dime.

What this town has not given her
the book will provide; a sheep,
a wilderness of new solutions.

from “Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things” by Naomi Shihab Nye

https://grateful.org/resource/because-of-libraries-we-can-say-these-things/