The breadwinner
Record details
- ISBN: 0439446333 (Scholastic pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780439446334 (Scholastic pbk.)
- ISBN: 0888994168 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 9780888994165 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 170 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre ; Groundwood ; House of Anansi, 2001, c2000.
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General Note: | "A Groundwood book"--t.p. |
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Topic Heading: | Special Collection Juvenile chapter books Juvenile fiction. |
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- 25 of 26 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 26 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | J Elli (Text) | 33294001252915 | Juvenile Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
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.