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Words in the dust / Trent Reedy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 266 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780545261258 (trade : alk. paper)
  • 0545261252
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.R25423 Wo 2011
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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Riverfield Country Day School Fiction Collection Fiction Collection FIC Ree (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Shelved in FIC Ree T0085427
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Publisher's Weekly, November 2010

Kirkus Review, December 2010

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264).

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