Words in the Dust
Publisher: Scholastic, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780545261265
Subjects: Children's fiction; Family life, fiction; Afghanistan, fiction; Sex role, fiction; Literacy, fiction
Description: 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.