Women and girls have been kicked out of their jobs, cannot even walk the streets without a male accompanying them. This book for middle grade readers explores the harsh realities we can only imagine in living with the Taliban restrictions. And the family is helped by their former physical education teacher, a Mrs. During this time of making the only money the family has, Parvana makes a friend, Shauzia, also living on the streets as a boy. Deborah Ellis spent several months in refugee camps in Pakistan interviewing women and girls to discover their stories.The first book, The Breadwinner, tells the story of Parvana, an eleven-year-old Afghan girl who, because of her father’s arrest and disappearance, ends up pretending to be a boy so she can be free to earn money on the streets of Kabul. Deborah Ellis herself has been honored with several prizes according to GoodReads: The Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award. The Breadwinner has won several awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. Review 2: This trilogy contains three separate books: The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey. I'm proud that my grandaughter was the one who introduced me to the book. This book should show children that by enduring and persevering young people can become heroes themselves. More sheltered children should not only be introduced to others tragedies but help to understand them and what can be done to stop and/or overcome them.

That children and young people are experiencing these horrific things is a tragedy and these children are the heroes of the book, despite the fact that they have no choice but to experience these things. This special edition features the previously published The Breadwinner, Haven and All Good Things, and includes the bonus companion story 'Nefarious.Review 1: I think this is a very brave book to have written and that children who read it are brave as well, especially here in the United States. The good guys don’t always win, because sometimes, the good guys have to be the bad guys in order to stay alive. Veronica, a high school track star, races to get her brother out of their doomed city.īen, a military veteran, comes to grips with the end of the world as he fights the undead.Īndrew, a police officer, struggles to maintain some sort of humanity in a world overrun by death and destruction. Samson, a criminal defense attorney, struggles to keep his family safe and his sanity intact when the world comes apart at the seams. In a matter of days the human race is reduced to nothing more than vicious, flesh hungry creatures. An omnibus edition of all the three books in Stevie Kopas' The Breadwinner Trilogy.

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