Words In the Dust
by Reedy, Trent
Life ChangesGolden Kite Award/Honor BookAfghanistanAfghanistan WarAl's Book Club (Al Roker)YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults
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AR Book Level
4.6
AR Points
10
Word Count
65,765
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
223634 EN
About this book
Zulaikha, a 13-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of changes in her life as she defies her father and meets with a woman who teaches her to read, her sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.