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Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
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Taliban -- Juvenile fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
Hackmatack Award.
Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
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Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
Taliban -- Juvenile fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
Hackmatack Award.
Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
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The
breadwinner
/ Deborah Ellis.
by
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
Douglas & McIntyre, c2000.
Call #:
FICTION ELL
Subjects
Taliban -- Juvenile fiction.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
Hackmatack Award.
Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
Series
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
Breadwinner
series ; bk. 1.
ISBN:
9781773060712 (2017 Groundwood Books movie tie-in pbk.)
9781554987658 (2015 Groundwood Books pbk.)
0888994192 (bound)
9780888994165 (pbk.)
Description:
170 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"A Groundwood book".
Summary:
Parvana has lived with her mother, father, brother and baby brother for a year and a half in the third floor of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. When Parvana's father is taken to prison for reading books unrelated to the Qu'ran the family is put into a terrible position. Who will be able to earn a living where girls are forbidden to go outside alone, even for water ? Who will be the
breadwinner
where even professional women cannot use their skills and gifts except through the underground or through the help of other women in a network?
Awards:
Winner of the Hackmatack Award for Fiction (English), 2003.
Genre:
Canadian fiction, Juvenile.
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