Luann's Reviews > Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

This took a while to draw me in, although I did care about Shabanu and what happened to her right from the beginning. I was more and more drawn in as the story progressed, especially when things happened that I wasn't expecting or predicting. I don't know much about the culture of Shabanu's people, but now I feel like I know a lot more. The details and the world felt very real. I enjoyed Staples descriptive writing style. I could tell she had really witnessed some of the events in the story. Now I need to read Haveli and find out what happens next in Shabanu's life!

I think this is for a bit older reader than many of the Newbery winners, and is more of a young adult book than a children's book. This won a Newbery honor award in 1990.