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Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004-03-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780192753489 |
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In this sequel to "The Breadwinner," the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Twelve-year-old Parvana's father has just died, and Parvana sets out alone to find her family, masquerading as a boy.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2004-03-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780192752840 |
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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.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0888999593 |
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Three stories detail the lives of Parvana, who dresses as a boy in order to provide for her family, and Shauzia, who lives in a widow's compound and dreams of moving to France.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2004-03-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192753762 |
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This is the sequel to Breadwinner.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0888999070 |
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Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.
Author | : Jo Cotterill |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2014-01-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448121566 |
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What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head? Amina’s homeland has been ravaged by war, and her family is devastated . . . The women of the family – Amina, her two sisters and their mother – have no choice but to leave their home town, along with thousands of others, and head for a refugee camp. But there are even more challenges ahead . . .
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1554982030 |
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Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner, the fictional story of eleven-year-old Parvana living in Kabul under the terror of the Taliban. But what happened to Afghanistan’s children after the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out. The twenty-six boys and girls featured in this book range in age from ten to seventeen, and they speak candidly about their lives now. They are still living in a country at war. Violence and oppression exist all around them. The situation for girls has improved, but it is still difficult and dangerous. And many children — boys and girls — are still supporting their families by selling items like pencils and matches on the street. Yet these kids are weathering their lives with remarkable courage and hope, getting as much education and life experience and fun as they can. All royalties from the sale of Kids of Kabul will go to Right to Learn Afghanistan. Key Text Features photographs maps glossary introduction historical context additional information Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.6 Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6 Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.9 Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Author | : Anne Laurel Carter |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0888999038 |
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Amani, a young Palestinian girl, looks to the meadows of the Firdoos to get her sheep the food they need, but when Israeli settlers impede her ability to get to the pasture, she must try to find a peaceful solution to the problem.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2022-10-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1773069586 |
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The Breadwinner The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. Parvana’s Journey In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana’s father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn’t know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. Mud City Parvana’s best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends. My Name Is Parvana Parvana, now fifteen, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001. One More Mountain It’s 2021, and the Taliban have retaken power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.
Author | : Deborah Ellis |
Publisher | : Groundwood Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1554980216 |
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Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister temporarily runs off while under his watch, earning his mother a heavy fine. The debt and dawning realization of his hopeless situation make him vulnerable to his friend Mando's plan to make big money, fast. Soon, Diego is deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation. As his situation becomes more and more dangerous, he knows he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6 Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6 Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.