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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 clef...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Arthur A. Levine Books,
[2011]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 266 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780545261258 (alk. paper) 0545261252 (alk. paper) |