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 palate.
- ISBN13 9780545261258
- Publish Date 1 January 2011
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Scholastic US
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English