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Beneath My Mother's Feet Hardcover - 2008

by Amjed Qamar

Fourteen-year-old Nazia is an average Pakistani girl--until her father is injured and cannot work. Nazia is forced to drop out of school to become a maid. This shameful choice could be detrimental to her future, and she finds herself growing up much too quickly.


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"Our lives will always be in the hands of our mothers, whether we like it or not."

Nazia doesn't mind when her friends tease and call her a good beti, a dutiful daughter. Growing up in a working-class family in Karachi, Pakistan, Nazia knows that obedience is the least she can give to her mother, who has spent years saving and preparing for her dowry. But every daughter must grow up, and for fourteen-year-old Nazia that day arrives suddenly when her father gets into an accident at work, and her family finds themselves without money for rent or food. Being the beti that she is, Nazia drops out of school to help her mother clean houses, all the while wondering when she managed to lose control of her life that had been full of friends and school. Working as a maid is a shameful obligation that could be detrimental to her future -- after all, no one wants a housekeeper for a daughter-in-law. As Nazia finds herself growing up much too quickly, the lessons of hardship that seem unbearable turn out to be a lot more liberating than she ever imagined.

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  • Title Beneath My Mother's Feet
  • Author Amjed Qamar
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
  • Date 2008-06
  • ISBN 9781416947288 / 1416947280
  • Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.65 x 0.81 in (21.72 x 14.35 x 2.06 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 12
  • Reading level 770
  • Library of Congress subjects Poverty, Sex role
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007019001
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2008, Page 58
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2008, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2008, Page 595
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2009, Page 0
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 05/15/2008, Page 554
  • Multicultural Review, 03/01/2009, Page 85
  • School Library Journal, 07/01/2008, Page 106
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