Khadija the hero
Amina Ibrahim
Jesse Breytenbach

Khadija was a ten year old girl who loved animals like:cats,dogs,rabbits and birds.She was one of the most helpful children in her neigbourhood. She would save animals that were injured. Like the time she saved two birds.

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One day, khadija was playing and pampering her pets then, her mom called her so she rushed back inside.

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When she came in, she saw her parents and her little brother Ahmed staring at a box so, she looked in the box too, and she saw two birds in it. Her mom said:"Khadija you can take care of these birds and look after them." So, khadija agreed.

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The Next day, khadija invited her two best Friends Aisha and Abdul and told them all about the two birds and that she was incharge of them. Before she could even finish talking the two birds coughed so, khadija ran in and told her parents.

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Khadija and her parents went to the hospital and the doctor examined the two birds and gave them medicine. From that day on Khadija and her little brother Ahmed became Junior veternarians.

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Khadija the hero
Author - Amina Ibrahim
Illustration - Jesse Breytenbach
Language - English
Level - First paragraphs