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Can I read Under the Persimmon Tree on EtoBox?
Under the Persimmon Tree by Staples, Suzanne Fisher is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Under the Persimmon Tree about?
An outstanding novel exploring the relationship between a young American woman and a refugee girl.Northern Afghanistan, 2001. When the Taliban takes her brother and father to be soldiers and the bombing of her tiny village kills her mother and baby brother, Najmah makes a dangerous journey over the mountains to Pakistan. Here she meets Elaine, an American woman waiting for her doctor husband to return from the front. Najmah joins Elaine's refugee school under the persimmon tree, until, sure that
Who reads Under the Persimmon Tree?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- Staples, Suzanne Fisher
- Publisher
- London : Walker Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780744555974
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, History
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24