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Title: Suzanne Fisher Staples can't write a decent phrase.
Review: From the start, this book was horrendously unrealistic. The author writes in the present tense, mixing Pakistani vocabulary with English, creating a confusing arrangement without tense or setting. "It was all the water we could get from the toba, the basin that is our main water supply." The book is full of such sentences. It is completely unclear as to who the author is speaking to, and who the main character Shabanu is speaking to. Altogether very confusing.This book has literally no plot and terrible writing. The author cannot decide who her audience is. The reading level is for fourth grade girls, yet the content is for adults. I read this book to learn more about Pakistani culture. The extent to which I learned was random information about camels, about as useful as knowing that the plastic tip of a shoelace is called an aglet.Suzanne Fisher Staples needs to think before she writes.
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