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Deborah Ellis trilogy has been a phenomenal success both critically andcommercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in onevolume. The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan where 11yearold Parvanalives with her family in a bombedout apartment building in Kabul. When herfather is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education the family isleft with no money or resources. Forbidden to earn money as a girl Parvanamust transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner. In ParvanasJourney her father has died and the family has scattered. Parvana now 13years old is determined to find them. Again masquerading as a boy she joins agroup of wandering children all refugees from war who exist mainly oncourage. In Mud City the focus shifts to 14yearold Shauzia who lives inthe Widows Compound in Pakistan and dreams of escaping to a new life inFrance. Deborah Ellis uses simple compelling language memorable charactersand a wealth of imaginative detail in this wrenching look at the human cost ofwar that is also a surprisingly hopeful story of survival. «
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