The Breadwinner - Deborah Ellis
GRADES 6-8
Age Range: 9 - 11 years
630L
The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media: the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, or go to school, or work outside the home, the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. She cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to earn money for her family. Parvana's determination to survive is the force that drives this novel set against the backdrop of an intolerable situation brought about by war and religious fanaticism.
Deborah Ellis spent several months talking with women and girls in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and Russia. This suspenseful, timely novel is the result of those encounters.
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brave girls,what can you make the best of it when everything goes wrong?how can you survive and hope for a better future?it's a blessing that we are now living in a peaceful world.war is really a disaster. it's good to know about the history in India and Pakistan.