Parvana (The breadwinner)
✍ Scribed by Deborah Ellis
- Publisher
- Groundwood Books Ltd.
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Edition
- 15th anniversary edition
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
The Breadwinner, the first in the Breadwinner Trilogy, is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances. A map, glossary and author's note provide young readers with background and context.
One day, Parvana's father is arrested by the Taliban -- the extreme religious faction that controls Afghanistan -- and the family is left without anyone to earn money and shop for food. Forbidden to work as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy to save her family. The Breadwinner is a novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances. A map, glossary and author's note provide young readers with background and context.
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