Words in the dust
About this book
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
- afghanistan - fiction
- afghanistan, fiction
- children's fiction
- cleft lip
- cleft lip - fiction
- cleft palate
- families
- family life
- family life - fiction
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- juvenile fiction
- literacy
- literacy - fiction
- literacy, fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- sex role
- sex role - fiction
- sex role, fiction