Suzanne Fisher Staples
1) Shabanu
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Newbery Honor winner about a heroic Pakistani girl that The Boston Globe called “Remarkable . . . a riveting tour de force.”
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy...
Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
4) Shiva's fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
From her childhood, Parvati is known in her village for the extraordinary events that seem to spring from her dancing feet, and which set her and her family apart. One day a great guru, a master of Indian classical dance, comes to see Parvati. He invites her to study with him, and she commits herself to a rigorous program of dance, study, and devotion. Then she meets a gentle-eyed boy who turns her life upside down, and she learns that destiny...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Suzanne, a daydreaming loner who likes to fish and walk through the woods, acquires a canine companion. Based on the author's childhood in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An unexpected death brings Shabanu's daughter, Mumtaz, and nephew, Jameel, both aged fifteen, to the forefront of an attempt to modernize Pakistan, but the teens must both sacrifice their own dreams if they are to meet family and tribal expectations.
8) Haveli
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
c1993, 2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.