Silence, s'il vous plaît from Fluency Matters/Wayside
Written and illustrated by Emily Ibrahim for Fluency Matters.
Life in Cairo, Egypt is anything but quiet. Day and night Samir hears continuous noise in spite of his attempts to ignore or eliminate it. Even his family is noisy! Desperate to sleep and study, Samir makes a bold attempt to escape the noisy city– even if it requires abandoning his family. He soon discovers that living without family in a constant state of ‘quiet’ is not as wonderful as he thought. Level 1 and above
