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Shooting Kabul / N.H. Senzai.
LIBRA PZ7.S47953 Sh 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Senzai, N. H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Juvenile fiction.
- Afghan Americans.
- Afghan Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- Refugees--Juvenile fiction.
- Refugees.
- Emigration and immigration--Juvenile fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Afghan Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area--Fiction.
- Afghan Americans--Fiction.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- California--San Francisco Bay Area.
- Emigration and immigration--Children's fiction.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Juvenile fiction.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Emigration and immigration--Children's fiction.
- Genre:
- Curriculum resource.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, ©2010.
- Summary:
- Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
- Contents:
- Getaway
- Lost
- Asylum
- Arrival
- Reunion
- Paradise
- Brookhaven
- Spotted
- Colors
- Stowaway
- Failure
- Catastrophe
- Culprit
- Target
- Barbie
- Exposure
- Broken
- October 7th
- Refocus
- Portrait
- Waiting
- Results
- Badal
- Confessions
- Exploratorium
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "A Paula Wiseman book."
- APALA Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Young Adult Literature Winner, 2010.
- Middle East Book Award (MEOC) for Youth Literature, 2010.
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011.
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262).
- ISBN:
- 9781442401945
- 144240194X
- 9781442401952
- 1442401958
- OCLC:
- 456551262
- Publisher Number:
- 99987196986
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