Words in the dust
By: by Trent Reedy
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847802712
Subjects: Fiction; Family life; Cleft lip; Sex role; Literacy; Cleft lip - Fiction; Afghanistan - Fiction; Sex role - Fiction; Literacy - Fiction; Family life - Fiction
Description: 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 lip. Suggested level: secondary.