One Half from the East

Hashimi, Nadia

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Middle School

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An emotional riveting coming-of-age journey to modern day Afghanistan that explores the "bacha posh" custom of dressing pre-teen girls as boys.

Obayda’s family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luck—dress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh.

Life in this in-between place is confusing, but once Obayda meets another bacha posh, everything changes. Their transformation won’t last forever, though—unless the two best friends can figure out a way to make it stick and make their newfound freedoms endure.

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