Words in the Dust
New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 266 pages ; 22 cm
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating 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.
Subjects:
Families -- Afghanistan -- Teen fiction.
Cleft lip -- Teen fiction.
Sex role -- Teen fiction.
Literacy -- Teen fiction.
Afghanistan -- Teen fiction.
Families -- Afghanistan -- Teen fiction.
Cleft lip -- Teen fiction.
Sex role -- Teen fiction.
Literacy -- Teen fiction.
Afghanistan -- Teen fiction.
Target Audience: 670L
ISBN:
9780545261258 (alk. paper)
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TF Reedy | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Teen | In |