Shabanu Daughter of the Wind

By Suzanne Fisher Staples

Subjects: marriage, Reading Level-Grade 12, desert, Social problems, fiction, camels, Pakistan, fiction, Sex role, Girls, fiction, family, Fiction, Nomads, Children's fiction, Marriage customs and rites, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Newbery Honor, puberty, Juvenile fiction, Sex role, fiction, Sex role -- Juvenile fiction

Description: 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.