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Author
Series
Breadwinner volume 1
Language
English
Description
After her father is arrested and her family is left without someone to earn money, eleven-year-old Parvana disguises herself as a boy to become the breadwinner, although the risks are great under Taliban rule.
2) Extra credit
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Breadwinner volume 2
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.
4) Mud city
Author
Series
Breadwinner volume 3
Language
English
Description
In order to earn enough money to buy her own passage out of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives, Shauzia dresses like a boy, but is forced into panhandling and ends up in jail, gaining hope only when a well-meaning American family rescues her.
Author
Series
Breadwinner volume 4
Language
English
Description
In post-Taliban Afghanistan, Parvana is held on a U.S. military base and interrogated as a possible terrorist, reflecting on the previous four years of her life she spent with her mother and sisters while she waits to learn her fate.
6) Ground Zero
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
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