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Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilirating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Bhojpuri
Description
"This miracle was brought to you by... 2,238 selfless doctors and nurses. 1,037 participating hospitals. 43 employees. 1,345,567 generous donors, ages 4 to 98. A lot of people deserve a lot of credit for all the miracles Smile Train has delivered over the last 10 years. Pinki is just one of hundreds of thousands of children who have received free cleft surgery thanks to Smile Train. This simple 45-minute surgery is a modern-day medical miracle....
