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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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Sex role, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, camels, desert, family, marriage, puberty, Nomads, Newbery Honor, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Children's fiction, Pakistan, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Sex role -- Juvenile fiction, Girls, fiction, Social problems, fiction, Marriage customs and rites, fictionTimes
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Readers Circle)
August 12, 2003, Laurel Leaf
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0440238560 9780440238560
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Shabanu: daughter of the wind
1989, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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0394848152 9780394848150
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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
October 7, 1989, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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0394948157 9780394948157
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"Phulan and I step gingerly through the prickly gray camel thorn, each of us balancing a red clay pot half filled with water on our heads."
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