Shabanu Daughter of the Wind
About this book
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Subjects
- camels
- children's fiction
- desert
- family
- fiction
- girls, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- marriage
- marriage customs and rites, fiction
- newbery honor
- nomads
- pakistan, fiction
- puberty
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- sex role
- sex role, fiction
- sex role -- juvenile fiction
- social problems, fiction