When she was young, Rawah Arja disliked reading. When she was older, she started teaching primary school students who disliked reading. In her south western Sydney classroom she challenged them, “if I wrote a book, would you read it?” | melaniekembrey
When she was younger, Rawah Arja disliked reading. When she was older, she started teaching primary school students who disliked reading. In her south western Sydney classroom she challenged them, “what if I wrote a book, would you read it?”out this month, will offer the kind of story she looked for as a young reader but could never find: one that reflected her life experience.
And it was not anything flashy or extravagant that Arja wanted from a book when she was growing up as one of seven siblings in a Muslim family in Punchbowl. But she couldn’t relate to any of the stories she read. The September 11 attacks in 2001 and the Cronulla riots in 2005, she says, had made her feel like an outsider and the lack of diversity in literature only added to her sense of exclusion.Looking for Alibrandi.
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