The Breadwinner
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto A Groundwood Book 2000Description: 170 pISBN:- 0-88899-419-2
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | MVS Library Children's Room | F- Fiction (Juvenile) | FIC ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | 23649 |
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A powerful and realistic novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship. This book brings the terrible Afghanistan/Taliban situation home to North American young people with humanity and power. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. Parvana transforms herself into a boy so she can help her family financially and become the breadwinner.
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