TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reedy,Trent
TI  - Words in the dust
SN  - 9780545261258 (trade : alk. paper)
AV  - PZ7.R25423 Wo 2011
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Arthur A. Levine Books
KW  - Families
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Cleft lip
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Family life
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264); Publisher's Weekly, November 2010; Kirkus Review, December 2010; 4.8; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; Follett Library Resources
N2  - 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
ER  -