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An edition of Shabanu Daughter of the Wind (1989)

Shabanu

Daughter of the Wind

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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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Perfection Learning Prebound

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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
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
January 1992, Perfection Learning Prebound
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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."

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OL8083791M
ISBN 10
0780711629
ISBN 13
9780780711624
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253197

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