It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends.
This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. Mud City Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan.
Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana's Journey A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country.
Deborah Ellis uses simple, compelling language, memorable characters, and a wealth of imaginative detail in this wrenching look at the human cost of war that is also a surprisingly hopeful story of survival.The Breadwinner 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. In Mud City, the focus shifts to 14-year-old Shauzia, who lives in the Widows' Compound in Pakistan and dreams of escaping to a new life in France. Again masquerading as a boy, she joins a group of wandering children, all refugees from war, who exist mainly on courage. Parvana, now 13 years old, is determined to find them. In Parvana's Journey, her father has died and the family has scattered. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner. When her father is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, the family is left with no money or resources. The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, where 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one volume. Deborah Ellis’ trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially.
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