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Under the Persimmon Tree

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Book - 2005 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1010

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0374380252 :

SUBJECTS
Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- History -- 2001- -- Fiction.
Peshawar (Pakistan) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.