The breadwinner

Title
The breadwinner

Personal Author EPSB
Deborah, Ellis

Summary
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

Year Published
2006,
 
2000

Physical Description
170 p. : maps ; 20 cm.

Note
"Groundwood Books."

Subject
Family life -- Fiction.
 
Women -- Employment -- Fiction.
 
Sex role -- Fiction.
 
Sex role -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
 
Friendship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Afghanistan -- Fiction.

Summary
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.

ISBN
9780888994196
 
9780888994165
 
9780329285418
 
9781404629400
 
9780439446334

Publisher
Toronto ; Berkeley, CA : House of Anansi ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Publishers Group West, [2006], c2000.


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NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198592Literature Studies
NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198535Literature Studies
NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198543Literature Studies
NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198519Literature Studies
NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198527Literature Studies
NorwoodNS ELLLiterature/novel study30156000198493Literature Studies