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In Suzanne Fisher Staples’s Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind, eleven-year-old Shabanu, living in the desert of Pakistan, navigates cultural expectations and familial responsibilities while forming a deep bond with her camel, Mithoo, amid preparations for her sister Phulan’s wedding and her own impending marriage to Rahim, an older man with multiple wives. The book includes themes of arranged marriage and domestic violence.