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Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Young Adult
Twelve-year-old Shabanu lives with her family in Pakistan's Cholistan Desert, in a society that denies women any form of independence. She is already betrothed, while her sister Phulan, a year older, is about to be married. After tragedy strikes, Shabanu is faced with a life changing decision - she must ...Show more
Daughter of the Wind (Shabanu #1) by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Shabanu
Shabanu, you are as wild as the wind. You must learn to obey. A powerful story about a young girl's struggle to have autonomy within the constraints of her society. Shabanu lives with her family in Pakistan's Cholistan Desert, in a society that denies women any form of independence. At twelve years old, ...Show more
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Fiction
The world of Newbery Honor Book Shabanu is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman's heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her position in her husband's household, even as she plans for her young d ...Show more
Red-tailed bird art by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Junior Fiction
Shabanu, daughter of the windswept Cholistan desert, is the youngest of Rahim's four wives. Although her husband adores her, it is only in his rarely inhabited town house, away from the family home, that Shabanu and her daughter can escape the cruelty of the other wives. But there Shabanu falls dangerou ...Show more
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Fiction
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she's been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the mar ...Show more
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: unmapped
An outstanding novel exploring the relationship between a young American woman and a refugee girl. Northern Afghanistan, 2001. When the Taliban takes her brother and father to be soldiers and the bombing of her tiny village kills her mother and baby brother, Najmah makes a dangerous journey over the mou ...Show more
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Young Adult
Left alone in Afghanistan, young Najmah hopes to find her father and brother, who were conscripted by the Taliban, and she begins the perilous journey to cross the border into Pakistan. There, an American woman teaches refugee children under the persimmon tree in her garden.
Under the Same Stars by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A young woman must choose between family, tradition and an unexpected love in this gripping novel set in Pakistan. Shabanu, daughter of the windswept Cholistan desert, is the youngest of Rahim's four wives. Although her husband adores her, it is only in his rarely inhabited town house, away from the fam ...Show more
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