TY  - BOOK
AU  - Staples,Suzanne Fisher
TI  - Under the persimmon tree
SN  - 0312377762
AV  - PZ7.S79346 Un 2008
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2008///, c2005
CY  - New York
PB  - Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Fiction
KW  - sears
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Peshawar (Pakistan)
N1  - Wilson's Senior High School, November 2006; Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010; Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2006; School Library Journal, July 2005; Booklist starred, July 2005; Book Links-starred, September 2005; Pub Weekly, June 2005; Horn Book, April 2006; Bulletin (Center for Children's books), September 2005; Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2005; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 5.9; 9.0; 100512
N2  - 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
ER  -