Premium Members Get 10% Off and Earn Rewards Find Out More
Obioma (Igbo edition)
8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her “the girl with the wheelchair”. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
1143322613
Obioma (Igbo edition)
8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her “the girl with the wheelchair”. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
16.95 In Stock
Obioma (Igbo edition)

Obioma (Igbo edition)

Obioma (Igbo edition)
Add to Wishlist
Obioma (Igbo edition)

Obioma (Igbo edition)

Overview

8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her “the girl with the wheelchair”. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913175399
Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
Publication date: 07/12/2022
Pages: 32
Product dimensions: 10.23(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.07(d)
Language: Igbo
Age Range: 3 Years

About the Author

Chika Unigwe is the author of four novels, including the acclaimed On Black Sisters' Street (Jonathan Cape, 2009), and winner of the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature (2012). She is an acclaimed short story writer, including the collection Better Never Than Late (Cassava Republic, 2019). In 2014 she was selected as one of the Africa39 list. In 2016, Unigwe was appointed as the Bonderman Professor for Creative Writing at Brown Universityin Rhode Island, and was judge of the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.
From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Customer Reviews