Title: Words in the dust /
Authors: Reedy, Trent
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Family life Afghanistan Fiction.; Cleft lip Fiction.; Sex role Fiction.; Literacy Fiction.; Families Afghanistan Juvenile fiction.; Cleft lip Juvenile fiction.; Sex role Juvenile fiction.; Literacy Juvenile fiction.; Afghanistan Fiction.; Afghanistan Juvenile fiction.
Abstract: Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating 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 lip.