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The Breadwinner (16pt Large Print Edition)

By Deborah Ellis
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Eleven-year-old Parvana lives in a bombed-out Kabul apartment with her family. When her father, a former history teacher, is arrested, Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to support her family. The Breadwinner explores themes of loyalty, survival, family, and friendship amidst the challenges of war-torn Afghanistan.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Over two million copies of The Breadwinner Trilogy sold worldwide Eleven - year - old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed - out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father - a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed - works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplac...

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Over two million copies of The Breadwinner Trilogy sold worldwide.

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's 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. As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner.

The Breadwinner is a novel about loyalty, survival, families, and friendship under extraordinary circumstances.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780369308429

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2013

Imprint: ReadHowYouWant

Edition: Large type / large print edition

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 277g

Pages: 194

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Deborah Ellis Large type / Large Print Editions Young Adult

About the Author

Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy set in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a series that has been published in twenty - five languages, with more than one million dollars in royalties donated to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She recently received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Ontario. Deborah lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

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