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Reedy, Trent (Author).

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.

Book  - 2011
J FIC Reedy
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Subject
Cleft lip > Juvenile fiction.
Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
Literacy > Juvenile fiction.
Life change events > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
Genre
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
  • ISBN: 0545261252
  • ISBN: 9780545261258
  • Physical Description print
    266 pages
  • Edition 1st ed.
  • Publisher New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264).
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 20.99