While an eighteen-year-old girl is determined to finish school, get a diploma, and become a social worker, her mother and uncles want to marry her off at all cost. Will she fulfill her dreams against such powerful opposition? The story Let Me Be is followed by a creative essay on the theme of leadership, A List of Ingredients: A Leadership Dish, and a poem about perseverance and success, Winning.
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Written by Mohamed Sheriff & Natheniel Pearce and illustrated by Ahmed Sahid Nasralla