All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis as well as a new map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner. 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.Īs conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. 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. 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.Įleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. "All girls The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." - Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
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