Facts of Life: Stories

Day My Father Became a Bush

Blue Jasmine

The Red Umbrella

1001 Cranes

Willow Run

Star in the Forest

Home Is East

Shabanu Series

Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, shes been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything shes dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her familys honoror listen to the stirrings of her own heart?From the Paperback edition.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Facts of Life: Stories

Gary Soto, 2008

Day My Father Became a Bush

Joke Van Leeuwen, Bill Nagelkerke, 2010

Blue Jasmine

Kashmira Sheth, 2004

The Red Umbrella

Christina Diaz Gonzalez, 2010

1001 Cranes

Naomi Hirahara, 2008

Willow Run

Patricia Reilly Giff, 2005

Star in the Forest

Laura Resau, 2010

Home Is East

Many Ly, 2005