Words in the dust

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.

Year

2011

Language

English

Publisher

Frances Lincoln Children's

Editions

11

ISBN

9781847802712

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