Bibliograph

Words in the dust, a novel, by Trent Reedy ; introduction by Katherine Paterson

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Words in the dust, a novel, by Trent Reedy ; introduction by Katherine Paterson

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Words in the dust

Medium

electronic resource

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Oclc number

756896933

Responsibility statement

by Trent Reedy ; introduction by Katherine Paterson

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

Target audience

pre adolescent

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