Under the persimmon tree

By Suzanne Fisher Staples

Subjects: Afghan War, 2001-, War, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 9, Pakistan, fiction, Afghan War (2001-) fast (OCoLC)fst01695175, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 6, Juvenile fiction, Refugees, History, Reading Level-Grade 10, Afghanistan, fiction, Refugees, fiction

Description: During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.