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Author
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
240 p ; ill. 22 cm.
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.
2) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a
3) Omar rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding schoo in Pakistan.
4) Amal unbound
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior, she is forced to leave her heartbroken family behind and go work at their estate. Amal is distraught but has faced setbacks before. So she summons her courage and begins navigating the complex rules of life as a servant, with all its attendant jealousies...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Zahra and Maryam have been best friends since childhood in Karachi, even though--or maybe because--they are unlike in nearly every way. Yet they never speak of the differences in their backgrounds or their values, not even after the fateful night when a moment of adolescent impulse upends their plans for the future. Three decades later, Zahra and Maryam have grown into powerful women who have each cut a distinctive path through London. But when two...
Author
Description
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And, every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But, when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so, begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone volume 6
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his friend, Cassioperia Vitt finds herself in a jam, Cotton Malone agrees to help. However, as he investigates why anybody would want to harm his friend, he realizes that she is in the middle of an international conspiracy. Consequently, Malone finds himself going up against his former boss and stumbles upon a plot to covertly control the world.
9) The promise
Author
Description
"Mallory Hammond is determined not to let her boyfriend, parents, or anyone else get in the way of her goal to save a life. She had that chance when she was a teenager, and the opportunity slipped away, leaving a void she's desperate to fill. Then a new friend she met online offers her the chance she has dreamed of. But she'll have to leave behind everyone she loves to take it"--
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