01590cam a2200373 4500 1164002836 TxAuBib 20120125120000.0 100702s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010026160 9780545261258 hbk. 0545261252 hbk. DLC DLC DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib Reedy, Trent. Words in the dust / Trent Reedy. 1st ed. New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. 266 p. ; 22 cm. "A novel"--Dust jacket cover. "Introduction by Katherine Paterson"--Dust jacket cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264). Publisher's Weekly,112910. Kirkus Review - Adult,120110. Booklist, 010111, p. 111. School Library Journal, 020111, p. 118. Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating 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. 20120125. Families Afghanistan Juvenile fiction. Cleft lip Juvenile fiction. Sex role Juvenile fiction. Literacy Juvenile fiction. Afghanistan Juvenile fiction. TXKIP