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McKay, Sharon E.

Thunder over Kandahar

260 pp. | Annick | August, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-1-55451-267-6 $21.95 | Paper ISBN 978-1-55451-266-9 $12.95
(3) YA Photographs by Rafal Gerszak. Two teenage girls in Afghanistan, one raised and educated in England (causing the Taliban to target her family) and one a native Afghani facing an arranged marriage, try to escape to Pakistan. The story is involving and the characters are sympathetic. McKay conveys much about Afghan culture, life, and the Taliban and successfully avoids stereotyping. Timeline. Glos.
Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

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