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The Breadwinner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto A Groundwood Book 2000Description: 170 pISBN:
  • 0-88899-419-2
Subject(s): Summary: 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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Fiction MVS Library Children's Room F- Fiction (Juvenile) FIC ELL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Withdrawn 23649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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