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Deborah Ellis
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Deborah Ellis interviewed women and girl refugees from Afghanistan and wrote three books based on their stories: The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey, and The Mud City. All three are here in one volume, a trilogy bound to give readers a powerful experience of what it is like to be a young woman under the Taliban rule, living in a country of warfare, minefields, and extreme poverty.
Parvana, 11, becomes her family's main breadwinner when her university-educated father is imprisoned by the Taliban. Because young women can barely venture outside, Parvana shaves her head, dons her dead brother's clothes, and works in the marketplace helping illiterate customers write or read letters.
In the second book, Parvana is separated from her mother and siblings. She and her father set out to find them, but her father dies and Parvana must travel across Afghanistan alone. She finds other refugees—an infant, a one-legged boy, and a girl who dies in a landmine. The experience of trying to survive as children alone in a war-torn land is heart-wrenching and not for the faint of heart.
There is some resolution in the third book, which traces the life of one of Parvana's friends who makes it to a Pakistani refugee camp.
Though these books are difficult to experience, they paint an accurate picture of life in Afghanistan and are an important part of our young people's education and awareness of other cultures.
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(Ages: 11 and up)
#16103 - Paperback Book - 439 pgs
Our price $18.95
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