An edition of Shabanu Daughter of the Wind (1989)

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Daughter of the Wind (Border Trilogy)

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An edition of Shabanu Daughter of the Wind (1989)

Shabanu

Daughter of the Wind (Border Trilogy)

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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.

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Laurel Leaf
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects
Sex role, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, camels, desert, family, marriage, puberty, Nomads, Newbery Honor, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Pakistan, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Sex role -- Juvenile fiction, Girls, fiction, Social problems, fiction, Marriage customs and rites, fiction
People
Phulan, Shabanu
Places
Cholistan Desert (Pakistan), Pakistan, Cholistan Desert, Sex role
Times
1980s

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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)
August 12, 2003, Laurel Leaf
in English
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Shabanu
2003, Gallimard-Jeunesse
in French
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Border Trilogy)
August 13, 1991, Laurel Leaf
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Shabanu: daughter of the wind
1989, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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Shabanu : daughter of the wind
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First Sentence

"Phulan and I step gingerly through the prickly gray camel thorn, each of us balancing a red clay pot half filled with water on our heads."

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
Weight
4.5 ounces

ID Numbers

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OL7701615M
ISBN 10
0679810307
ISBN 13
9780679810308
Library Thing
253197
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836798

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