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.
year: 2008, 2011
call number/section: 1000, 2000
subjects: family life, pakistan, fiction, household employees, self-actualization (psychology), sex role, poverty, pakistan, fiction, family, families, juvenile fiction, juvenile fiction
Editions
Qamar, Amjed
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2008)
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.
Schools: 20
Qamar, Amjed
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2011)
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.
Schools: 2
Qamar, Amjed
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.
Schools: 3