Under the persimmon tree
Staples, Suzanne Fisher2006
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Northern Afghanistan, 2001. When the Taliban takes her brother and father to be soldiers and the bombing of her tiny village kills her mother and baby brother, Najmah makes a dangerous journey over the mountains to Pakistan. Here she meets Elaine, an American woman waiting for her doctor husband to return from the front.
Main title:
Under the persimmon tree / Suzanne Fisher Staples.
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Imprint:
London : Walker, 2006.
Collation:
296 p. : map ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
0744555973
Dewey class:
813.5'4
Language:
English
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BRN:
175303
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