To: Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, John Kerry, United States of America, Secretary of State, and Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

President Karzai: Give Spozhmai a child's life

This girl should be playing games and learning to read. Instead she was caring for a family that strapped a bomb to her and sent her out to die. Please don't send her back to them--give her a good home!

Why is this important?

As a writer of books for teenagers, I was horrified to read of Spozhmai's arrest and of her treatment at home. Young people deserve a stable environment in which to grow and learn, not a boot camp for suicide warriors. Please give her a real, caring home and a real life.