TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reedy,Trent
TI  - Words in the dust
SN  - 0545261252 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Arthur A. Levine Books
KW  - Cleft lip
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Sex role
N2  - 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
ER  -