Fifteen Lanes by Alexis Olohan https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7 Something To See Portion en-us 2019-01-16 19:00:27 UTC 2019-01-17 17:39:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321405387 2019-01-16 19:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321405387 Social Awareness; being aware of the problems that different societies and communities face on a day-to-day basis, and to be conscious of the difficulties. alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321407945 2019-01-16 19:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321407945 How Social Awareness Connects To Fifteen Lanes: alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321408777 In the novel Noor was born into a brothel, and she is destined to have the same fate as her mother; a desperate life trapped in the city's sex trade. This is social awareness. People are aware of the sex trade, and the ones in the sex trade have to face everything there on a day-to-day basis.]]> 2019-01-16 19:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321408777 alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321414889 2019-01-16 19:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321414889 S.J Laidlaw; Was born in Philadelphia and spent most of her childhood in Toronto. After completing her undergraduate degree in English, she traveled to Africa as a volunteer teacher. There she discovered that her students needed as much guidance and support outside the classroom as in it, so after three years, she returned to Canada to complete a graduate degree in clinical social work. Since then, she has worked as a councelor in many countries and led workshops for parents and educators on raising and working with third-culture children. Her first book, An Infidel in Paradise, won the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, and her second book, The Voice inside My Head, was chosen as a 2015 CLA Young Adult Book and Honour Book. It has been shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award (winner to be announced). When she is not writing, S.J. Laidlaw currently volunteers at a night shelter for the children of sex workers in Mumbai. alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321792016 2019-01-17 17:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321792016 Noor; an eleven year old who lives in a Mumbai brothel with her mother and siblings, is grateful for the opportunity to go to school, hoping it will give her a chance to escape her fate of following in her mother's footsteps and being sold into the sex trade. Although she is able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions, and capable and wise beyond her years, her life as the oldest daughter of a sex worker is full of struggles and challenges. alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321799103 2019-01-17 17:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321799103 Grace; Living in the same city is Grace, the Canadian teenage daughter of a CEO of one of the largest international banks in India. A child of privilege, Grace faces her own torments when she is cyber-bullied. alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321801645 2019-01-17 17:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321801645 Fifteen Lanes; A heartbreaking novel that explores the lives and relationship of two very different girls. A resilient Indian girl, and a troubled Canadian teen set in the fifteen lanes that's made up of Mumbai's red light district. alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321803430 2019-01-17 17:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321803430 alexiso67 https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321805740 2019-01-17 17:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiso67/4cux109mrlp7/wish/321805740