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Words in the dust by Trent Reedy · Booklabria

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Words in the dust

Children's fictionFamily life

Words in the dust

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First published: 2011
Language: English
Editions: 10

Synopsis

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 palate.

Subjects: Children's fiction
Family life
Families
Sex role
Literacy
Afghanistan
Set in: Afghanistan

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