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Title:
The breadwinner
Personal Author EPSB:
Deborah, Ellis
Summary:
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Year Published:
2015
Series:
The Breadwinner series ;
Volume:
1st book
Physical Description:
152 pages : map ; 21 cm
Edition:
15th anniversary edition.
Note:
"First published in the USA in 2001. Fifteenth anniversary edition with foreword and revised note published in paperback in Canada and the USA in 2015 by Groundwood Books"--Title page verso.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 4.5 4.0 41702
Corporate Subject:
Taliban -- Fiction.
Subject:
Families -- Fiction.

Responsibility -- Fiction.

Sex role -- Fiction.

Girls -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781554987658

9780605889026
Publisher:
Toronto, Ontario : Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press, 2015.
Edmonton Public Schools