Under the persimmon tree

author: Staples, Suzanne Fisher
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to locate their missing loved ones after the war ends.
year: 2005, 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: afghan war, 2001-, juvenile fiction, refugees, fiction, afghanistan, history, 2001-, juvenile fiction, peshawar (pakistan), fiction

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Under the persimmon tree
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)
A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to locate their missing loved ones after the war ends.
Schools: 34



Under the persimmon tree
Staples, Suzanne Fisher
Square Fish (2008)
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmah, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her huband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Schools: 1


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