Shabanu : daughter of the wind / by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
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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- ISBN: 0307977889
- ISBN: 0394848152
- ISBN: 0394948157
- ISBN: 0440238560
- ISBN: 0679810307
- ISBN: 9780307977885
- ISBN: 9780679810308
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House Sprinters, 1989, 1990.
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- Target Audience Note:
- 970L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.9 9 7122.
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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.
