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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reedy, Trent
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Family life > Afghanistan > Fiction.
Cleft lip > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Literacy > Fiction.
Afghanistan > Fiction.
Families > Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
Cleft lip > Juvenile fiction.
Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
Literacy > Juvenile fiction.
Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
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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.
Physical Description:266 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780545261258 (alk. paper)
0545261252 (alk. paper)