Reedy, Trent.

Words in the dust / Trent Reedy. - New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. - 266 p. ; 22 cm.

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.

ISBN: 9780545261258 (alk. paper) 0545261252 (alk. paper) 9780545336994 (soft cover)

LCCN: 2010026160

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family life
Cleft lip
Sex role
Literacy

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]