Words in the dust
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.
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- ISBN: 0545261252
- ISBN: 9780545261258
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Physical Description
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266 pages - Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264). |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 20.99 |