Author: Sofie Koborg Brsen
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Keywords: understand
Number of Pages: 51
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1843104644
ISBN-13: 9781843104643

Sofie Koborg Brosen is eleven years old and, like other children of her age, goes to a mainstream school, loves reading comics and being with her family and her cat, Teddy. But Sofie is not the same as everyone else - she has autism spectrum disorder. Fed up of being misunderstood by her classmates, she has written a book about her world so others can learn to understand her, and vice versa. Sofie describes her day-to-day life in clear, unambiguous language and tells readers about things she finds difficult: being given too many instructions, disruptions to her routine, being teased, strong li

Author: Sofie Laguna
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Keywords: wrong, foot, one
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2008-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1741753988
ISBN-13: 9781741753981

’The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark’. Hester is a young girl of dark beginnings and few words. She is kept at home by her painfully reclusive parents and allowed no contact with the world outside the front door. And yet Hester finds joy in life’s ordinary moments - to her, everything is an Alice-in-Wonderland discovery. But from the moment Hester is forced to attend school, she quickly learns that there are some things she cannot tell her parents. She knows that ’a secret has no sound; it lives in your darkest corner where it sits and waits’. Until

Author: Sofie Laguna
Publisher: Running Press Kids
Keywords: nibbles, buster
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2006-05-23
List price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0762426268
ISBN-13: 9780762426263

Being bad is what Buster Reed does best. He flicks paint. He sticks chewing gum under seats. He wears the same socks every day--for a whole month! And much worse! What happens when trouble finally trips up Buster and leaves him working at the Dog Home? Will Bad Buster ever be good? Grades 1-3

Author: Anne-Sofie Roald
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: experience, western, islam, women
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-07-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415248957
ISBN-13: 9780415248952

Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible.