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Staples, Suzanne Fisher.

Shabanu : daughter of the wind / by Suzanne Fisher Staples. - New York : Distributed by Random House, c1989. - 240 p. : ill ; 22 cm.

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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.

7.0 Follett Library Book Co. 7-10. Young Adult Follett Library Resources.

Newbery Medal/Honor, 1990.

ISBN: 0394848152 : $13.95 0394948157 (lib. bdg.) 9780394848150 9780394948157

LCCN: 89002714

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sex role--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Cholistan Desert (Pakistan)--Fiction.
Pakistan--Fiction.
Cholistan Desert (Pakistan)--Fiction.
Pakistan--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.S79346 / Sh 1989

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]