The book that I chose was I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali. Nujood was born in a village in Yemen called Khardji. Nujood’s mother was forced to marry her father when she was only 16, much like Nujood’s early marriage which we hear about later. Nujood had 16 siblings, but some of them died before she was born. Their family was very poor and neither of her parents could read or write and saw no reason for any of their daughters to learn, but their brothers went to school and their father took care of the family’s animals while Nujood and her sisters did the housework. One day, Nujood’s father got into an argument with men from the village who claimed that Nujood’s sister Mona dishonored their village. After the argument Mona was