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The Breadwinner
Fifteenth Anniversary edition
By (author):
Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis
Imprint:
Groundwood Books - TorontoISBN:
9781554987658Product Form:
PaperbackForm detail:
Trade
Paperback
, Trade
English
Audience:
Juvenile: Age (years) 10 - 14, Grade (CAN) 5 - 9, Grade (US) 5 - 9
May 01, 2015
$10.99 CAD
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Dimensions:
8in x 5.25 x 0.5 in | 0.66 lbPage Count:
160 pagesIllustrations:
Updated map
Groundwood Books Ltd
Groundwood Books
JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Middle East
Hackmatack Award 2003, Winner
Trillium Book Award 2001, Short-listed
Baia delle Favole Prize for ages 9–12 2003, Winner
Middle East Book Award 2002, Winner
Rocky Mountain Book Award 2003, Short-listed
Swedish Peter Pan Prize 2003, Winner
OLA Golden Oak Award 2003, Long-listed
OLA Red Maple Award 2001, Long-listed
SYRCA Diamond Willow Award 2003, Long-listed
YALSA PPYA 2003, Commended
Young Jury Awards 2004, Long-listed
- Description
- Author Bio
- Reviews
"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times
The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis as well as a new map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context.
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.
All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Parvana’s Fund supports education projects for Afghan women and children.
DEBORAH ELLIS is the author of the international bestseller The Breadwinner, which has been published in twenty-five languages. She has won the Governor General’s Award, the Middle East Book Award, the Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Deborah has donated more than $2 million in royalties to organizations such as Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, Mental Health Without Borders, the UNHCR and the Children in Crisis fund of IBBY. She lives in Simcoe, Ontario.
[The books in the Breadwinner series] are terrifying indictments of what war can bring to children and a powerful testament to the ingenuity and strength of young people in times of terror. - Book Links
...an exceptional story that enlightens the reader about circumstances beyond comprehension and helps students understand that all of us in this global community share the same hopes, dreams, and fears. - Resource Links
..a book...about the hard times — and the courage — of Afghan children. - Washington Post
A great kids’ book...a graphic geopolitical brief that’s also a girl-power parable. - Newsweek
