This book is about a girl and her siblings and parents that live in Afghananistan. Then her dad is put in jail by the Taliban. Now they have to turn the girl named parvanna into a boy and they have to cut her hair. Her sister Nooria is going to mazar to get married. Then her dad comes back out of jail.

The Eiffel Tower was build to stay up for twenty years but instead it is still up today. And Gustavo convinced them not to tear down by saying it could be used for scientific things like radio signals.

The hypothesis was if herbivores had a sweet tooth for sweet food. They picked pandas because they eat bamboo and leaves and they wanted to know if pandas had a sweet tooth. In the passage it says that panda like Apple and watermelons because they are juicy and sweet. No because just give them fruits you would know.