Parvana's Journey

By Deborah Ellis

Subjects: Missing persons, fiction, War, fiction, Girls, Taliban, Children's fiction, Refugee camps, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, History, Adolescence, fiction, Survival, fiction, Afghanistan, fiction

Description: Parvana sets out alone to walk across war torn Afghanistan in search of her family. Her mother, sister and little brother are missing and she has just buried her father. A look at the situation in Afghanistan and the courage and resilience that can keep children afloat even in the most terrible circumstances.