Under the persimmon tree

Suzanne Fisher Staples

About this book

During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Subjects

  • afghanistan, fiction
  • afghan war, 2001-
  • afghan war (2001-) fast (ocolc)fst01695175
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • history
  • juvenile fiction
  • pakistan, fiction
  • reading level-grade 10
  • reading level-grade 11
  • reading level-grade 4
  • reading level-grade 5
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • reading level-grade 9
  • refugees
  • refugees, fiction
  • war, fiction