My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 5–8—Zulaikha's life in Afghanistan is not easy. She is teased constantly for a facial deformity and although the Taliban is no longer in power, it has violently taken her mother from her, and the 13-year-old is left keeping house for a busy, traditional father and his bad-tempered wife. She is trapped by the confines of her culture as well as by her ow...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Based on actual experiences of an Afghani teen, this novel explores the hopes and dreams of thirteen-year-old Zulaikha, daughter of a welder in a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
