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The breadwinner, Deborah Ellis

Label
The breadwinner, Deborah Ellis
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
HL700L, Lexile
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The breadwinner
Oclc number
967788004
Responsibility statement
Deborah Ellis
Summary
Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistans capital city. Parvanas father a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food
Target audience
juvenile
Classification
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