Words in the dust
By: Trent Reedy
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780545261258
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 palate.