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PARVANA 
Author:   Deborah Ellis    Author info     
RRP:   $18.99
20% Off  $15.20
10+ Copy Price :  $15.20         
20+ Copy Price :  $15.20
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Middle Novel 
Age:   11+ 
ISBN:   9781761068676
Category:   Refugees and Migration
Published:   9/06/2022
Status:   In Stock
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Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment in war-torn Afghanistan during the Taliban era of the late 1990s.?When soldiers burst into her home and drag her father off to prison, it becomes Parvana's responsibility to be the breadwinner for her family. But in a city where girls and women are denied an education and forbidden to leave the home without a male family member, Parvana needs to find a way to make a living in the marketplace of Kabul. Dressed as a boy, Parvana must gather all her courage and resilience and risk her life every day to make ends meet in the dangerous and volatile city.? A powerful and riveting novel about loyalty, resistance, survival, family and friendship in the face of overwhelming fear and oppression.



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