num_pages: 320
description: Set against the backdrop of Karachi Pakistan Saadia Faruqis middle grade novel tells the story of two girls navigating a summer of change and family upheaval.Mimi is not thrilled to be spending her summer in Karachi Pakistan with grandparents shes never met. Secretly she wishes to find her long-absent father and plans to write to him in her beautiful new journal.The cooks daughter Sakina still hasnt told her parents that shell be accepted to school only if she can improve her English test scorebut then how could her family possibly afford to lose the money she earns working with her Abba in a rich familys kitchen?Although the girls seem totally incompatible at first as the summer goes on Sakina and Mimi realize that they have plenty in commonand that they each need the other to get what they want most. 
language: English
title: A Thousand Questions
publisher: Quill Tree Books