The Breadwinner: 1 - Softcover

Ellis, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554987652 ISBN 13: 9781554987658

Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada, 2015

Synopsis

The first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father -- a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed -- works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner. The 15th anniversary edition includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis as well as a new map, an updated author's note, and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Parvana's Fund supports education projects for Afghan women and children.

About this title

Review:

A great kids book . . . a graphic geopolitical brief that s also a girl-power parable. Newsweek"

"A great kids' book . . . a graphic geopolitical brief that's also a girl-power parable." -- Newsweek

Book Description:

Starvation or survival - a girl's life under Taliban rule

About this edition

• Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1554987652
• ISBN 13: 9781554987658
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176