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Beneath my mother's feet / Amjed Qamar.

Qamar, Amjed. (Author).
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  • 1 copy at The Center Library.

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0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
The Center Library 813 Qam 2008 146032 Stacks Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416947288 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1416947280 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9781442414518 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1442414510 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 198 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2008.

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.: 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.
Target Audience Note: 770 Lexile
Ages 12 up.
Study Program Information Note: Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG+ 4.9 8.
Awards Note: A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject: Family life > Pakistan > Fiction.
Household employees > Fiction.
Pakistan > Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction.
Sex role > Fiction.
Poverty > Fiction.
Families > Pakistan > Juvenile fiction.
Household employees > Juvenile fiction.
Pakistan > Juvenile fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
Poverty > Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls > Juvenile fiction.
Wounds and injuries > Juvenile fiction.
Fate and fatalism > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Life change events > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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