Shabanu

Description:

When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

subjects: Sex role,  Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  camels,  desert,  family,  marriage,  puberty,  Nomads,  Newbery Honor,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  Children's fiction,  Pakistan, fiction,  Sex role, fiction,  Sex role -- Juvenile fiction,  Girls, fiction,  Social problems, fiction,  Marriage customs and rites, fiction

People: Phulan,  Shabanu

Places: Cholistan Desert (Pakistan),  Pakistan,  Cholistan Desert,  Sex role

Times: 1980s