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The breadwinner, Deborah Ellis

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The breadwinner

889168876

Deborah Ellis

Breadwinner series, bk. 1

Accelerated Reader, MG, 4.5, 4.

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

juvenile

Bread winner