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164 pp.
| Groundwood |
September, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-88899-518-0$$15.95
(3)
4-6
Shauzia, a proud fourteen-year-old from Kabul living in a refugee camp in Pakistan, takes to the streets of Peshawar dressed as a boy in hopes of earning money to realize her dream of making a life for herself in France. As in the other books in her trilogy, Ellis doesn't neglect to offer strong characterizations while chronicling the devastating realities of war. Glos.