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Nasreen's secret school : a true story from Afghanistan / by Jeanette Winter.

Title
Nasreen's secret school : a true story from Afghanistan / by Jeanette Winter.
Author
Winter, Jeanette
Publication
New York : Beach Lane Books, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Bobco, Ann
  • Beach Lane Books publisher.
  • Simon and Schuster, Inc. publisher.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
Based on a true story. After her parents are taken away by the Taliban, young Nasreen stops speaking. But as she spends time in a secret school, she slowly breaks out of her shell.
Subject
  • Taliban > Juvenile literature
  • Taliban
  • 2000-2099
  • Girls' schools > Afghanistan > Juvenile literature
  • Girls > Education > Afghanistan > Juvenile literature
  • Girls > Fiction
  • Education > Afghanistan
  • Parent-separated children
  • Children of divorced parents > Juvenile literature
  • Sex role > Juvenile fiction
  • Afghanistan > Social conditions > 21st century > Juvenile literature
  • Afghanistan > Social conditions
Genre/Form
  • Dust jackets (Bindings) – 2009.
  • Fiction
  • Juvenile works
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Curriculum resource.
Note
  • "A Global Fund for Children book"--Cover.
Audience (note)
  • 006-009.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Awards (note)
  • Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2010.
ISBN
  • 9781416994374 (hardcover)
  • 1416994378 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2009008285
OCLC
  • 311763793
  • SCSB-12852530
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library