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Zulaikha, an Afghan girl, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly learns to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
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Trent Reedy is the author of Divided We Fall, Burning Nation, and The Last Full Measure, a trilogy about the second American Civil War; If You're Reading This; Stealing Air; and Words in the Dust, which was the winner of the Christopher Medal and an Al Roker's Book Club pick on the Today Show. Trent and his family live near Spokane, Washington. Please visit his website at www.trentreedy.com.
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Meena sighed. "Ah, Zulaikha, the beautiful princess. How you've grown."
"I'm only a girl." I covered my mouth with my filthy chador. "I'm not beautiful."
"Only a girl?" She reached toward me and gently pulled the shawl away from my face. "Nonsense. There's nothing 'only' about being a girl. You must give yourself time. 'Every triumph from patience springs, the happy herald of better things.'"
I had always thought those words were something my mother had shared only with me. How could Meena know them? "That's what my mother used to say."
"Yes." She smiled. "I know. It comes from Yusuf and Zulaikha. Your mother adored the poet Jami. And you. So you will forgive me, Zulaikha-jan, if I cannot accept that you are, as you say, 'only a girl.'"
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- PublisherScholastic Inc.
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0545472822
- ISBN 13 9780545472821
- BindingAudio CD
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