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Author:

Reedy, Trent.

Title:

Words in the dust / [playaway] by Trent Reedy ; introduction by Katherine Paterson.

Format:

[playaway]

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

Playaway Digital Audio :

Copyright Date:

2012, p2011

Description:

1 sound media player (8 hr., 28 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.

Subject:

Books on playaway.
Family life--Afghanistan--Fiction.
Cleft lip--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.
Literacy--Fiction.
Families--Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
Cleft lip--Juvenile fiction.
Sex role--Juvenile fiction.
Literacy--Juvenile fiction.
Afghanistan--Fiction.
Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Delawari, Ariana, 1980- nrt
Paterson, Katherine.
Qais Essar, Kevin, 1986- cmp
Scholastic, Inc.
Scholastic Audiobooks.
Playaway Digital Audio.
Findaway World, LLC.

Notes:

Title from Playaway label. "Scholastic Audiobooks"--Container. Release date supplied by publisher. Previously released by Scholastic, Inc., p2011. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback. Includes interviews with author Trent Reedy and narrator Ariana Delawari. Read by Ariana Delawari ; introduction read by Katherine Paterson ; author's note read by Trent Reedy.

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.

ISBN:

1615878734
9781615878734

OCLC:

(OCoLC)756896933

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)