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  • Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
     
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  • Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
     
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  • Taliban -- Juvenile fiction.
     
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  • Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
     
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  • Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
     
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  • Hackmatack Award.
     
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    The breadwinner / Deborah Ellis.
    by Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
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    Douglas & McIntyre, c2000.
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  • Taliban -- Juvenile fiction.
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  • Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- Juvenile fiction.
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  • Sex role -- Juvenile fiction.
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  • Hackmatack Award.
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  • Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction.
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  • 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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