Author: Mitali Perkins
Narrator: Zehra Naqvi
Unabridged: 1 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 03/06/2018
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - People & Places - Asia
This acclaimed, award-winning novel by Mitali Perkins will soon be a movie!
Naima is a talented painter of traditional alpana patterns, which Bangladeshi women and girls paint on their houses for special celebrations. But Naima is not satisfied just painting alpana. She wants to help earn money for her family, like her best friend, Saleem, does for his family. When Naima's rash effort to help puts her family deeper in debt, she draws on her resourceful nature and her talents to bravely save the day.
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