Shabanu Daughter of the Wind
Pakistan, fiction
Camels
Nomads
Puberty
Sex role, fiction
Newbery Honor
Girls, fiction
Reading Level-Grade 11
Reading Level-Grade 12
Sex role
Marriage
Family
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
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.…
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