My name is Blessing
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Toronto : Tundra Books, 2013.
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Book
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Main Library - Children's Picture Books
Fiction Walters, E
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Oliver La Farge - Children's Picture Books
Fiction Walters, E
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Southside - Children's Picture Books
Fiction Walters, E
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Published
Toronto : Tundra Books, 2013.
Language
English
Lexile code
AD
Lexile measure
630

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Description
Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but plenty of love. A difficult choice must be made and Muthini is the youngest child and needs to have a better chance in life, so his Nyanya takes him to an orphanage where he is blessed and his name is changed to Baraka which means blessing for he was a blessing just as his grandmother always knew.
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A young Kenyan boy with disabilities named Muthini lives with his grandmother and eight cousins, but when his grandmother is no longer able to take care of him they two set out on a journey that will change the young boy's life, and his name, forever.
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AD630L,Lexile
Target Audience
Decoding demand: 68 (high),Semantic demand: 83 (very high),Syntactic demand: 87 (very high),Structure demand: 83 (very high),Lexile
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Issued also in electronic format.

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