Bibliograph

The breadwinner, Deborah Ellis

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The breadwinner, Deborah Ellis

Language

eng

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maps

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 9-13

Literary Form

novels

Main title

The breadwinner

Oclc number

889168876

Responsibility statement

Deborah Ellis

Series statement

The Breadwinner series, [Book one]

Summary

Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan

Target audience

pre adolescent

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