Author

Publication

2000 - Scholastic, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

42,500 words, Guess

Page Count

170 pages

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Classifications

  • LCCPS8559 L5494 L66 1999

Description

The Breadwinner brings to life an issue that has recently exploded in the international media-- the reality of life under the Taliban. Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country. Since women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, or go to school, or work outside the home, the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. She cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to earn money for her family. [Booklist].

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