Breadwinner

Name: Breadwinner
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ISBN: 9780888994165

ISBN-10: 0888994168

ISBN-13: 9780888994165

Edition: 2000

Authors: Deborah Ellis

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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…

Book details

List price: $8.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Publication date: 10/25/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 170
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Deborah Elliswon Canada’s Governor General’s Award in 2000 for her first book,Searching for X. She is also the author of several other books, includingParvana’s Journey, winner of the Jane Addams Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award, given annually by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Booksellers Association. She lives in Ontario, Canada.