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Words in the dust / Trent Reedy.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.R25423 Wo 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reedy, Trent, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Cleft lip--Juvenile fiction.
- Cleft lip.
- Sex role--Juvenile fiction.
- Sex role.
- Literacy--Juvenile fiction.
- Literacy.
- Family life--Afghanistan--Fiction.
- Cleft lip--Fiction.
- Sex role--Fiction.
- Literacy--Fiction.
- Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
- Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Teen fiction.
- Children's fiction.
- Children's stories.
- Juvenile works.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264).
- Parents Choice Awards Recommended, 2011.
- Cybils Finalist, 2011.
- Christopher Awards, 2012.
- Golden Kite Honor Book, 2012.
- American Library Association Amelia Bloomer Project (2012).
- ISBN:
- 9780545261258
- 0545261252
- 9780545336994
- 0545336996
- 9780545261265
- 0545261260
- OCLC:
- 639167388
- Publisher Number:
- 99987197007
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