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Nine-year-old Bahishta, who was born in Afghanistan, presents a look at her daily life in the U.

It isn't that Abby Carson can't do her schoolwork. She just doesn't like doing it.

Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.

A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to locate their missing loved ones after the war ends.

Discusses the people, land, culture, history, and future of the nation of Afghanistan.

Text and photos show how the people of Afghanistan, a predominantly Muslim country, celebrate holidays and festivals, using art, music, dance, and stories.

A map-oriented look at the history of Afghanistan, covering such topics as its early invaders, the Soviet occupation, and the rise of the Taliban.

Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, people, politics, and culture of Afghanistan.

After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.

Fourteen-year-old Shauzia, an Afghan refugee living in a camp in Pakistan, determines to find a way to fulfill her dreams of seeing the ocean and beginning a new life in France.

An overview of Afghanistan that covers its environment, plants and animals, history, government, industries, agriculture, religions, culture, and lifestyles and includes a time line, further resource list, fast facts, and approximately one hundred color photos.

Provides information about the land, people, sports, school, food, and holidays of Afghanistan, a large country in central Asia, discusses the effect of the Islam religion on the country, and includes a map, flag, and other facts.

Latifa, a young woman who was sixteen in 1996 when the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, tells about her family's experiences under the repressive regime, focusing on the lives of women and girls who were abruptly denied the freedom to work, go to school, or even leave their homes without a male escort.

Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.

Presents a short study of what it is like to be a refugee living in America, and follows the experiences of Mohammed Nazari, a young sixteen-year-old boy who, with his mother and siblings, came to this country from Afghanistan.