The Middle East Book Award winner and Governor Generals Literary Award finalist inspired by Kabul, Afghanistans first library bus is now in paperback!

It is still dark in Kabul, Afghanistan when the library bus rumbles out of the city. There are no bus seatsinstead there are chairs and tables and shelves of books. And there are no passengersinstead there is Pari, who is nervously starting her first day as Mamas library helper. Pari stands tall to hand out notebooks and pencils at the villages and the refugee camp, but she feels intimidated. The girls they visit are learning to write English from Mama. Pari cant even read or write in Farsi yet. But next year she will go to school and learn all there is to know. And she is so lucky. Not long ago, Mama tells her, girls were not allowed to read at all.

The Library Busis a celebration of literacy, ingenuity, and the strength of women and girls demanding a future for themselves.