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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

by Barbara Cohen, Bahija Lovejoy, Amy Cohn
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Overview

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot — Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.

A retelling of a traditional Arabic tale in which a young woman disguises herself as a man and opens up a shop in a distant city in order to help her impoverished family.

Synopsis

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different.Buran cannot — Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.

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A tale replete with adventure and humor.

About the Author, Barbara Cohen

Barbara Cohen (1932-1992) was the author of several acclaimed picture books and novels for young readers, including The Carp in the Bathtub, Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story, Thank You, Jackie Robinson, and King of the Seventh Grade.

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A tale replete with adventure and humor.

Children's Literature - Yvonne Herbst

A charming and engaging retelling of a traditional Arabic tale in which a young woman applies all her intelligence, resourcefulness and ingenuity to attain her "impossible dream" of becoming a wealthy merchant in a far-off city. Buran, the central character, simply refuses to accept her culture's conventional wisdom of what women can and cannot do. She provides an inspiring model of how to overcome life's inevitable setbacks with self-confidence and persistence. 1994 (orig.

Book Details

Published
October 1, 1994
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages
224
Format
Mass Market Paperback
ISBN
9780688135638

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