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1 online resource |
Contents |
The breadwinner -- Parvana's journey -- Mud city |
Summary |
Deborah Ellis' trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one volume. The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, where 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. When her father is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, the family is left with no money or resources. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner. In Parvana's Journey, her father has died and the family has scattered. Parvana, now |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
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Girls -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Academic theses.
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Fiction.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1283262541 |
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1554981840 (electronic bk.) |
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9781283262545 |
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9781554981847 (electronic bk.) |
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