Words in the Dust
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Adult
Fiction
Hosseini, Khalid. The Kite Runner. Riverhead, 2003.
— A Thousand Splendid Suns. Riverhead, 2007.
Nonfiction
Ansary, Tamim. West of Kabul, East of New York. Picador, 2003.
Dole, Nathan Haskell and Belle M. Walker, The Persian Poets. Crowell, 1901.
Doubleday, Veronica. Three Women of Herat: A Memoir of Life, Love and Friendship in Afghanistan. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006.
Joya, Malalai. A Woman Among Warlords. Scribner, 2009.
Lamb, Christina. The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan. San Val, 2004.
Seierstad, Asne. The Bookseller of Kabul. Little, Brown, 2003.
Introduction copyright © 2011 by Katherine Paterson
Text copyright © 2011 by Trent Reedy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reedy, Trent. • Words in the dust / Trent Reedy. — 1st ed. • p. cm. • Summary: 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. • ISBN 978-0-545-26125-8 (alk. paper) • [1. Family life — Afghanistan — Fiction. 2. Cleft lip — Fiction. 3. Sex role — Fiction. • 4. Literacy — Fiction. 5. Afghanistan — Fiction.] I. Title. • PZ7.R25423Wo 2011 • [Fic] — dc22 • 2010026160
First edition, January 2011
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