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Beneath my mother's feet / Amjed Qamar.

Qamar, Amjed, (author.).

Summary:

When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416947288
  • ISBN: 1416947280
  • ISBN: 9781442414518
  • ISBN: 1442414510
  • Physical Description: 198 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
770 Lexile.
Ages 12 up.
770L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 4.9 8.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.9 8 122750.
Awards Note:
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2009.
A Junior Library Guild selection

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Subject:
Families > Pakistan > Fiction.
Household employees > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Wounds and injuries > Fiction.
Fate and fatalism > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Gender roles.
Pakistan > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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