The Breadwinner Ellis Deborah
All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. -- Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis's riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty,…
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All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. -- Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe 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 in the late 1990s.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