One Half from the EastPerfect for fans of Rita Williams Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimis first novel for young readers is a coming of age journey set in modern day Afghanistan that explores life as a bacha posha preteen girl dressed as a boy. Obaydas family is in need of some good fortune, and her aunt has an idea to bring the family luckdress Obayda, the youngest of four sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh. Life in this

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the boy next door and her first love

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Achieving equilibrium in today’s age of anxiety can seem like a near-impossible—even frivolous—task

While their stories span thousands of miles and multiple generations

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connecting their ideal crime-free community to some of the greatest criminal masterminds ever known

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she casts her shrewd and knowing eye at the men and women in blue

Despite coming from wildly different backgrounds—Heddi

particular—change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters