| ID | 025403 |
| Call Number | FIC/REE |
| Title Proper | Words in the dust |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Reedy, Trent |
| Publication | Gurgaon, Scholastic, 2011. |
| Description | 264p Maroon Spine |
| Note | 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. |
| Standard Number | 9789352758562 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.364(Pb) |
| Classification Number | FIC |
| Key Words | Sex role - Fiction ; Afghanistan - Fiction ; Literacy - Fiction ; Girls - Afghanistan - Fiction ; Lexile 670L ; Girls - Afghanistan - Social conditions - Fiction ; Family life - Afghanistan - Fiction ; Cleft lip - Fiction |