Walking for water : how one boy stood up for gender equality / Susan Hughes ; [illustrated by] Nicole Miles.

By:

Hughes, Susan, 1960-

Contributor(s):

Miles, Nicole

Material type: Text

TextSeries: CitizenKidPublisher: Toronto : Kids Can Press, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Description: 30 pages : colour illustrationsContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1525302493
9781525302497

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

Summary: A boy, Victor, realizes that the girls in his Malawi village are not being treated the same as the boys. When he and his twin sister Linesi turn eight years old, he still attends to school but Linesi, like other girls and women in the community, has to walk to the river several times a day to get water for the family. Victor comes up with a plan to help. Based on the true story of a Malawian boy, the book also includes information about education and water availability in Malawi, resources and a glossary of Chichewa words.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
J Picture	West Grey Neustadt Branch Shelves	Fiction	JP HUG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2022 Silver Birch Express Nominee		33321003211191

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A boy, Victor, realizes that the girls in his Malawi village are not being treated the same as the boys. When he and his twin sister Linesi turn eight years old, he still attends to school but Linesi, like other girls and women in the community, has to walk to the river several times a day to get water for the family. Victor comes up with a plan to help. Based on the true story of a Malawian boy, the book also includes information about education and water availability in Malawi, resources and a glossary of Chichewa words.

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