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El Pan de la Guerra Fifteenth Anniv Edition
Contributor(s): Ellis, Deborah (Author)
ISBN: 1554987644     ISBN-13: 9781554987641
Publisher: Groundwood Books
OUR PRICE:   $9.89  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Language: Spanish
Published: May 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - Middle East
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 630
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 152 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Family
- Topical - Self-Esteem
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 41702
Reading Level: 4.5   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
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. 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 15th 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. All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Parvana's Fund supports education projects for Afghan women and children.