Price: $11.99
ISBN13: 9781550028294
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Description
Shabash was nominated for Ontario's Silver Birch Award for its sensitive exploration of the cultural differences that unite and divide and the prejudices within, and against, minority communities. As a Sikh living in a small mill town in the interior of British Columbia, Rana knows he is "different"; in fact, he is the first Sikh in Dinway to join the hockey team. But what started as a whim becomes a determined struggle, and Rana persists, making the team, and meets Les, who becomes a new friend. But the jibes from his teammates and community members continue. Finally, just before the most important game of the season, an extraordinary event interrupts the lives of everyone in Dinway, and Rana explodes in anger, risking his membership and the respect he has earned over the hockey season.
Shabash! is often used in conjunction with a unit on racism. A teachers' guide is available through the publisher.
An 'Our Choice' award from the Canadian Children's Book Centre. Also nominated for the Silver Birch Award.
