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Words in the dust

Reedy, Trent. (Author).

Summary: Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.

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  • ISBN: 9780545261265 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0545261260 (trade pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780545261258
  • ISBN: 0545261252
  • Physical Description: print
    266 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264).
Awards Note:
Winner of the Christopher Award.
Subject: Families -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction
Cleft lip -- Juvenile fiction
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction
Literacy -- Juvenile fiction
Family life -- Fiction
Cleft lip -- Fiction
Sex role -- Fiction
Literacy -- Fiction
Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction
Afghanistan -- Fiction

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Burns Lake Public Library JF (Text) 35198000520966 Junior Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
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