Words in the dust

By Trent Reedy

Subjects: Cleft lip, Literacy, Family life, fiction, Reading Level-Grade 12, Families, Reading Level-Grade 9, Cleft palate, Afghanistan - Fiction, Literacy - Fiction, Sex role, Family life - Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 11, Sex role - Fiction, Cleft lip - Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 6, Literacy, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Reading Level-Grade 10, Sex role, fiction, Afghanistan, fiction, Family life

Description: 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.