Staples, Suzanne Fisher. <br/><br/>
Under the persimmon tree / 
Suzanne Fisher Staples. 
 - 1st Square Fish ed. 
 - New York :  Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux,  2008, c2005. 
 - 275 p. :  map ;  21 cm. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0312377762 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Afghan War, 2001---Fiction.<br/>Refugees--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Afghanistan--Fiction.<br/>Peshawar (Pakistan)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.S79346  / Un 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]