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Summary: Excellent read
Review: I just finished this book as a prelude to using it in a 5th and 6th grade literature group. I am anxious to read this book with the kids who will relate, not only to the geographic areas, since we just finished a unit on Mesopotamia, but also to the age old story of making personal decisions that have an impact on the lives of many. In this world of male versus female struggles, we see that even in Ancient Persia, Buran, a female, makes a success of herself (although disguised as a man) and yet never divulges her true feelings for the Prince of Tyre. She is a woman that females and males can look up to and admire for her wisdom and dedication to family. A wonderful read for everyone.
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Summary: Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
Review: I just read this book as a school project but now I have read it over and over. This is a great book about a girl named Buran who lives with her six sisters and her poor family in ancient Baghdad. Buran wants to help her family's money problems so she dresses up as a boy and joins a caravan across the Sahara to Tyre. There she sets up shop and soon she is making a good living. But soon she makes friends with the prince of the city. Buran secretly falls in love with him but she can't tell him that because the prince thinks that she is a he.
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Summary: One Of the Best Books Ever!
Review: I loved Seven Daughters and Seven Sons. It was one of the best books I've ever read! It was so good. The plot is wonderful, and the language exquisite. You should read it!
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Summary: Wow, A totally cool book!
Review: I loved this book! It has been my long time favorite until recently. An incredible book about a girl seeking fortune desguised as a man. A must read for people who can recognize a good book when they read one!
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Summary: Great to read alongside your daughter
Review: I previewed this book and my daughter will read it in the next few weeks as part of her homeschool literature course. What a great springboard for discussion of culture, marriage, and women's roles! A very interesting parallel of Dustin Hoffman's "Tootsie" role. A book to be savored, but I devoured it instead! I'll have to read it more slowly the next time.
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Summary: Wonderful Arabian fairytale! Must buy for ages 9 and up!
Review: I read this book as a young adult and thought it was wonderful. This book is about a very capable girl that sets out on her own to save her family and in the meantime finds her freedom and self-worth despite the restrictions of her moslem culture. Her father sired 7 daughters, and her uncle 7 sons and the whole book revolves around the irony that the man considered cursed with only girls later becomes wealthy and happy while all the rich cousins bankrupt their father. The heroine joins a caravan dresses as a boy as she leaves her home town to make her fortune. The work is hard but she is very skillful and inteligent at trading and becomes a pillar of the community in her adopted city. As a spice and herb trader she becomes famous (as a young man) and becomes close friends with the city's prince and his companions. It is only a matter of time before a the young men suspect their effemate young friend who doesn't go to the public bath house or go out drinking so they set up a series of hillarious tests to decide if he is really a she! Then story ends with a delicious series of punishments for the greedy cousins of her uncle that prevents her father from marrying her to any of the seven sons and the arrival of just the right prince for this extraordinary woman. Great book that reads like a popular fable that everyone has heard off but nobody really knows and that is great for contemporary audiences
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Summary: Seven Stars and Seven thumbs
Review: I really enjoyed the book, Seven Daughters and Seven Sons. It was romantic and touching and cleverly written. It got rid of the sterotypes that guys are better than girls. If you enjoyed the Disney classic "Mulan" you might enjoy this book. It was a good folktale novel that took place in te Arab nation. It is highly recommended by our readers in our school.
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Summary: My All Time Favorite Book
Review: I really love this book. Although I usually go for books with fantasy and magic, this was just as good, if not better than, fantasy. This books is a story about Buran, a poor merchant's daughter. Her family and father especially are considered cursed because they have seven daughters and no sons. Buran's uncle is very rich and greedy, never sharing with his brother's family. He is considered blessed because he has seven sons and no daughters. Buran's father is worried because he doesn't think he will find suitable husbands for his daughters. But Buran has a plan to make not just enough money for her sisters' dowries, but also to pass down to their grandchildren. Buran plans to desguise as a boy and become a merchant. She travels to Tyre as Nasir, where she and her partner in trading, Jihha, a very experinced merchant become more successful than they could have ever dreamed. After her newfound success, Buran befriends the prince and his two friends. But one thing happened that Buran had not counted on. She falls in love with the prince. When she realizes the prince suspects her of being a woman, she runs away, traveling from port to port, back to Bagdhdad because she thinks the prince with hate her for deceiving him. But little does she know that the prince far from hates her. After his suspisions about her being a woman are confirmed, so are his feelings of love for her. Although neither of them are aware of the other's feelings, they are sure of the feeling of love in their hearts.
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Summary: My All Time Favorite Book
Review: I really love this book. Although I usually go for books with fantasy and magic, this was just as good, if not better than, fantasy. This books is a story about Buran, a poor merchant's daughter. Her family and father especially are considered cursed because they have seven daughters and no sons. Buran's uncle is very rich and greedy, never sharing with his brother's family. He is considered blessed because he has seven sons and no daughters. Buran's father is worried because he doesn't think he will find suitable husbands for his daughters. But Buran has a plan to make not just enough money for her sisters' dowries, but also to pass down to their grandchildren. Buran plans to desguise as a boy and become a merchant. She travels to Tyre as Nasir, where she and her partner in trading, Jihha, a very experinced merchant become more successful than they could have ever dreamed. After her newfound success, Buran befriends the prince and his two friends. But one thing happened that Buran had not counted on. She falls in love with the prince. When she realizes the prince suspects her of being a woman, she runs away, traveling from port to port, back to Bagdhdad because she thinks the prince with hate her for deceiving him. But little does she know that the prince far from hates her. After his suspisions about her being a woman are confirmed, so are his feelings of love for her. Although neither of them are aware of the other's feelings, they are sure of the feeling of love in their hearts.
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Summary: A Very Good Book
Review: I think this book is a very good book. I the beginning I thought it was boring but after I finished with a few chapters I started to Like it. Here is a review of my own: In an Ancient Arabian city, there lived two brothers. A brother with seven sons and a brother with seven daughters. Back then, sons were more important and valuable than daughters. The brother with seven sons was known as a wealthy man and the brother with seven daughters was known as poor. To help her family pays the debts and earns their fortune, the fourth daughter of the poor man, Buran disguised herself as a man and work as a merchant in the city. While working as a merchant in Tyre, Buran met Mahmud, the prince. They became good friends and soon Buran found herself in love with him. But if she releases her secret she will lose everything she has worked for. Everybody should should reading it! :o)
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