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One Half from the East
Contributor(s): Hashimi, Nadia (Author)
ISBN: 0062421913     ISBN-13: 9780062421913
Publisher: HarperCollins
OUR PRICE:   $6.29  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Middle East
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 650
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.5" (0.40 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Topical - Self-Esteem
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Topical - Family
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 184412
Reading Level: 4.3   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 8.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi's first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posh--a preteen girl dressed as a boy.

Obayda's family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luck--dress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh.

Life in this in-between place is confusing, but once Obayda meets another bacha posh, everything changes. Their transformation won't last forever, though--unless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.

Nadia Hashimi's first novel for adults, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, was a bestseller that shares a bacha posh character with One Half from the East.

Contributor Bio(s): Hashimi, Nadia: -

Nadia Hashimi was born and raised in New York and New Jersey. Both her parents were born in Afghanistan and left in the early 1970s, before the Soviet invasion. In 2002, Nadia made her first trip to Afghanistan with her parents. She is a pediatrician and lives with her family in the Washington, DC, suburbs. She is the author of three books for adults, as well as the middle grade novels One Half from the East and The Sky at Our Feet. Visit her online at www.nadiahashimi.com.