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Author Qamar, Amjed.

Title Beneath my mother's feet / Amjed Qamar
Edition First Atheneum Books for Young Readers paperback edition
Published New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2011
©2008

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Description 198 pages ; 21 cm
Summary When her father is injured, fourteen-year-old Nazia is pulled away from school, her friends, and her preparations for an arranged marriage, to help her mother clean houses in a wealthy part of Karachi, Pakistan, where she finally rebels against the destiny that is planned for her
Notes Includes an Urdu vocabulary list
Ages 12 up
Subject Families -- Pakistan -- Juvenile fiction.
Household employees -- Juvenile fiction.
Poverty -- Juvenile fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
Family life -- Pakistan -- Fiction.
Household employees -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Pakistan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125947 -- Juvenile fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001687
Pakistan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125947 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 1442414510 (paperback)
9781442414518 (paperback)