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by Reedy, Trent.
[ 02. English Fiction ] Published by : Arthur A. Levine Books, (New York :) Physical details: 266 p. ; 22 cm. Subject(s): Family life | Cleft lip | Sex role | Literacy Year : 2011 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction
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Birchwood Intermediate School F REE Available

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.