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Suzanne Fisher Staples
1) Shabanu
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
The Newbery Honor winner about a heroic Pakistani girl that The Boston Globe called “Remarkable . . . a riveting tour de force.”
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy...
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
5) Shiva's fire
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In India, a talented dancer sacrifices friends and family for her art.
7) Haveli
Author
Pub. Date
1995, c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. Sequel to "Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind."
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