Shabanu
Subtitle: daughter of the wind
By: Suzanne Fisher Staples
Edition: 1st Knopf Paperback ed
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Sex role -- Juvenile fiction; Cholistan Desert (Pakistan) -- Juvenile fiction; Pakistan -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes
Notes: "A Knopf Paperback"