- [bookjacket|
] Title
- Under The Persimmon Tree
Attribution
Suzanne Fisher StaplesFormat
BookPublished
2005Availability
[availability|tl34696000253794]Call Number
- J Sta
Description and Reviews
Intertwined portraits of courage and hope in Afghanistan and PakistanNajmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. summarized from Amazon.com [reviews|asin=]Subject
Notes
- “Frances Foster books.”
- 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.
ISBN
- 0374380252
LCCN
- 2004053256
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