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It’s a good novel, well written and interesting. Deborah Ellis has created an engaging, sympathetic protagonist in Parvana: she is smart and brave, but not preternaturally adult. Certainly she has had to grow up a lot faster than other children her age who don’t live in a war-torn country, but she is still clearly a child. The events in the book are realistically depicted and quite grim, but the book isn’t entirely devoid of hope. The first time I used it in a class, I did regret having timed it
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One of the first children's books written about the life for a child in Afghanistan during the time of the Taliban.
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