Title My name is Blessing / written by Eric Walters ; illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes.

Publication Info.	Toronto : Tundra Books, [2013]
	©2013

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	JJ WALTERS	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department	E PINK WALTERS	Check Shelf
Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department	JUNIOR BOOKS WAL	Check Shelf

Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Series	MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection. MiEM
Form	Issued also in electronic format.
Summary	Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but plenty of love. A difficult choice must be made and Muthini is the youngest child and needs to have a better chance in life, so his Nyanya takes him to an orphanage where he is blessed and his name is changed to Baraka which means blessing for he was a blessing just as his grandmother always knew.
Audience	Elementary Grade.
Subject	Orphanages -- Kenya -- Juvenile fiction.
	Orphans -- Kenya -- Juvenile fiction.
	Orphanages -- Kenya -- Fiction.
	Orphans -- Kenya -- Fiction.
	Orphanages. (OCoLC)fst01048423
	Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
	Kenya. (OCoLC)fst01208718
Genre/Form	Picture books.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787.
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637.
	Canadian fiction.
Added Author	Fernandes, Eugenie, 1943- illustrator.
ISBN	9781770493018 (hbk.)
	1770493018 (hbk.)
	9781616060244 (paperback)
	1616060247 (paperback)

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