Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner #2)

By Deborah Ellis

Subjects: Refugee children, Women, Femmes, Talibans, Conditions sociales, Camps de réfugiés, Reading Level-Grade 4, Families, Teenage girls, Family, Sex role, Détermination (Trait de personnalité), Authors, Canadian (English), Survival, Reading Level-Grade 8, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Missing persons, Taliban, Reading Level-Grade 7, Fiction, Children's fiction, Reading Level-Grade 5, Personnes disparues, Reading Level-Grade 6, Adolescentes, Determination (Personality trait), Social conditions, Refugee camps, War, Juvenile fiction, History, Afghanistan, fiction, Family life

Description: In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's father has just died, and her mother, sister, and brother could be anywhere in the country. Parvana knows she must find them.Despite her youth, Parvana sets out alone, masquerading as a boy. She soon meets other children who are victims of war -- an infant boy in a bombed-out village, a nine-year-old girl who thinks she has magic powers over landmines, and a boy with one leg. The children travel together, forging a kind of family out of sheer need. The strength of their bond makes it possible to survive the most desperate conditions.