ShabanuDell Laurel-Leaf
Shabanu is a young girl living in the desert of eastern Pakistan, near Bahawalpur on the border of India. Her family raises camels for a living and practice strict cultural traditions. Her older sister, Phulan, is about to be married and her whole family is engulfed in the preparations for her marriage. The book goes through Shabanu's struggles with traditions and the proper way of doing things while tragedy strikes a few days before Phulan's wedding.
WARNING: It talks about the natural things that happen when a girl becomes a woman, such as physical changes and menstrual bleeding, but not in an inappropriate way at all.
Personal opinion:
I loved this book. It wasn't very deep writing but it was full of cultural information and it was a great story. It wasn't written badly by any means, but Staples is no Robert Cormier. Anyways, I really enjoyed the story line and getting to know the customs of Pakistan people and the Islam religion. I am really itching to read the sequel, and it didn't even leave me hanging, that's how good it is.
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