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The narrator recounts how friends and classmates stare, question the “fake” hand, and even cause a bad incident involving her bag. Through advice, observations, and shared small challenges, the letters move toward understanding, empathy, and respectful inclusion in everyday school life.","A Helping Hand  \nWritten by: Payal Dhar Illustrated by: Vartika Sharma English  \nA Helping Hand  \nWritten by: Payal Dhar Illustrated by: Vartika Sharma  \nEnglish  \nA Helping Hand  \nWritten by: Payal Dhar  \nIllustrated by: Vartika Sharma  \nCopyright © 2016, Pratham Books  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nDear…well, you know who you are. And it’s not like you’re ever going to see this letter.  \nMiss told me that I had to be your mentor and show you around because you are a new student. I didn’t know what a ‘mentor’ is, so I looked it up in the dictionary. Anyway, she didn’t tell me anything about that.  \nAli and Gaurav and Sumi and Rani, they kept asking me about it when we were going home from school. Itold them that I didn’t know what they were talking about, but that’s not true. How can I not know? See, you made me lie to my friends.  \nYours sincerely, Me  \nHi again,  \nMa says that it is not good to stare at people, but I can see that everyone stares at you. They stare at me too because I have to hang around with you and be your ‘mentor’. Why did you come to our school? Why couldn’t you continue going to whatever school you went to earlier?  \nDo you know what happened yesterday? Gaurav, Ali and two of their friends from Class VII cornered me after school to ask about you-know-what. They took my bag and wouldn’t give it back. Then they threw it into the thicket by the side of the road and I had to scramble down into the mountainside to get it. I tore my shirt and Ma was angry with me.  \nThis is all your fault.  \nMe  \nHello,  \nMy oldest sister, the one who’s studying engineering in Delhi, called today. I told her,“There’s a girl in my class and she has a fake hand,” and she said that the term is “prosthetic hand”.  \nListen, I have some advice for you. You may be new and all, but if you want people to stop staring at you and talking about you, you have to stop standing in the corner all the time. Why don’t you play with us? Why don’t you come on the swing? Everyone loves the swing. It’s been two weeks, and you can jolly wellcome by yourself. I am not going to be your minder forever.  \nSometimes I don’t know what to say to you. Me  \nHello,  \nI keep telling them that they can ask you whatever they want to know. What’s the point of asking me? 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