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Summary: Very Interesting
Review: This book turned out to be more than I thought it would. It was about a girl who lives in the desert and many different things happen to her, She has to go where her 12 year old sister is getting married and there is a big sand storm and she has to part with one of her beloved camels. Over all I found this to be an interesting book and I would reccomend it to someone looking for a great book to read.
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Summary: the little girl with a lion heart
Review: Written in the first person, this story takes the reader on a journey into the beautiful and brave heart of a little girl named Shabanu. Shabanu and her family live a nobadic lifestyle in the deserts of Cholistan. Her life is so different, and so distant from ours, yet when i read this story, i understood shabanu, and felt what she felt. When she was sad, i was sad, when she was scared, i was scared, when she was brave, i was so proud, and in the end, when she surrendered, i cried. I have never cried while reading a book in my life. yet as i read the last sentences of this story, the words reached out and grabbed my soul, and twisted and squeezed it, and then threw it on the floor. at that time, whatever was going through shabanu was going through me. The story takes place over a time span of about 2 years. shabanu, who is a child of only 11 at the beginning of the story, has to grow up brutally fast in her next two years, ultimatly giving up her childhood for good, though still at a tender young age. this saddened me. like a kite let go by a child in the windy sky, with her childhood went her freedom and innocence, something she cherished so deeply.
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Summary: An emotional challenge, yet still beautiful in its own way!
Review: I don't think that i have ever read a better book. It put life in perspective and showed i think many of us just how good some of us really have got it. Some might have viewed the ending to this book depressing, unlike others it brought me a certain joy. Since i knew that no matter what, Shabanu could still treasure all the joyfull moments in her life. An awesome book and i highly recommened it!
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Summary: NOT inappropriate
Review: I think that this book was very good and well written. Somekids said it was inappropriate for boys and girls under 14. Not so. Itdidn't tell me anything I didn't already know at the time (I was 11)
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Summary: Shabanu
Review: This book was great in it's potrayal of a young woman with teenage feelings.It was also great in the description of women in poor third-world countries. Otherwise, the book was not too good, if you like stories about teenage heartache, or Pakistan, buy the book.
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Summary: One of the greatest books this century!
Review: This was a great book! It made me cry it made me laugh. This book was so descriptive you could see Shabanu running through the desert. It was great!
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Summary: Camels
Review: I'm reading this book for my English class. Shabanu is the worst book I have ever read. ONly the end redeems it. All they talk about are CAMELS! Camels this, camels that! But that is not the main reason why I don't like this book. My main reason for the dislike of Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind is that they portray many Muslim women as having no rights whatsoever. Moreover, it also offends me because not all Muslims are like SHabanu's family. Women in Islam have more rights, and earlier than many of the women in our country today. They wear CHADR only outside the house, not all the time like at home, during sleep as Shabanu's family does. ANd also, very rarely are girls married off as young as Shabanu and PHulan were. I believe this book should not be used as an example of how many Pakistanis live. Much of this information is not inaccurate (there could be some Cholistanis who live like this) but it is not a complete picture of daily Pakistani life.
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Summary: This book is great
Review: I had to read this book for seventh grade english. Boring? I think not! Shabanu is a great story about a girl named Shabanu and her nomadic family. Her family allows her to be wilder than other Islamic girls in the Cholistan Desert.Her parents worry that she will always be this way. Her sister, Phulan, is exactly opposite of Shabanu. She is an example of how Muslim girls were supposed to be. Then, something happens, which changes their future plans. I think everyone- no matter their age- should read this book
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Summary: Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Review: I gave this book four stars because it was kind of nasty in some parts. Some, yes, I guess were necessary. But mostly I liked this book because it kind of pulled you in to live with the characters. Over all, it was a good book.
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Summary: Ride the wind
Review: This was a great book. It was one of 3 books that I chose for National Reading Day at my school. The only problem was that I finished all 3 before I got to the classroom! This is a book you cannot put down no matter what. I have only one thing left to say. You go girl!
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