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Yasmin’s Hammer
Genre Realistic Fiction
Award Asian Pacific American Award for Literature
This book is told by a young girl about her family and her. She starts telling about her village and then losing everything in a cyclone and having to move to the city. In the city her and her sister are not allowed to go to school they need to work to help with buying food for the family. It is her dream to be able to read and have a better life. She works extra hard at breaking bricks and is able to get extra coins for all the hard work. She saves her money and buys a book to read with her family. This helps the father to see that she needs school and he finds a way to make her dreams come true.
This book represents the world after the tsunami hit Japan we heard of families that lost everything and were not even allowed to stay in the same region because of the nuclear leak. They lost everything including their family land. Many families in Japan had to move to cities and even different countries to find jobs. They too had to have faith and hard work to make their dreams come true.