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Words in the dust

Words in the dust

Children Family Fiction

Trent Reedy

Authors: Trent Reedy
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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.