Staples, Suzanne Fisher.

Shabanu : daughter of the wind / by Suzanne Fisher Staples. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1989. - 240 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0394848152 0394948157 (lib. bdg.) 0679810307 (Knopf pbk.)

LCCN: 89002714 /AC

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Cholistan Desert (Pakistan)--Fiction.
Pakistan--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.S79346 / Sh 1989

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]