Title: Words in the dust
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.
Subjects: Cleft palate, Family life, Sex role, Fiction, Literacy, Cleft lip, Families, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Literacy, fiction, Afghanistan, fiction, Cleft lip - Fiction, Afghanistan - Fiction, Sex role - Fiction, Literacy - Fiction, Family life - Fiction
Places: Afghanistan