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Parvana is a girl in midst of a terrible war in Afghanistan. Her father has just died and she desperately wants to find her mother and siblings. She disguises herself as a boy in order to travel without great difficulty in her country. Everywhere there are enormous obstacles. She cannot find food. She cannot find clean water. She must travel across mine fields. She runs across a baby and a one-legged boy and a little girl who all travel with her, who all add to her burden of finding food and wat
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Of the books in the lit circle binge I'm on right now, this one was heart-wrenching. All of the books I'm reading have been, but this one just got to me. I think because the main character, Parvana, gets ripped from her life so quickly and has to become the one in charge at such a young age. What she has to go through to stay safe is something that I can't even imagine at any age let alone a preteen. As with The Breadwinner and Mud City, I feel this book also wrapped up to quickly and too neatly
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In the second book of the Breadwinner series, Parvana finds herself alone in Afganistan after her father's death. Parvana is a 10-year-old Afghan girl who has been posing as a boy in order to work and earn money for her family. The family's village was partially destroyed after bombings. She and her father left with the men of the village to find help. Her mother and other siblings were designated to go with the other women.
Parvana's father dies in the refugee camp and she leaves because she fea ...more
Parvana's father dies in the refugee camp and she leaves because she fea ...more
Apr 08, 2013
Enthu_Kidlets
marked it as to-read
