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The breadwinner / Deborah Ellis.

Bread winner (other title)
Ellis, Deborah, 1960- (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0888994168
  • ISBN: 0888994192
  • ISBN: 9780756939175
  • Physical Description: 170 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre, 2001.
  • Distributor: Berkeley, Calif. : Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Groundwood book."
Target Audience Note:
710L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.4 4 41702.
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.5 4 41702.

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Subject: Taliban > Juvenile fiction.
Girls > Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
Women's rights > Juvenile fiction.
Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
Disguise > Juvenile fiction.
Survival > Juvenile fiction.
Girls.
Gender roles.
Kabul (Afghanistan) > Juvenile fiction.
Afghanistan > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Fiction.

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