TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Deborah
TI  - The breadwinner
SN  - 0888994168
U1  - F 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Los Angeles, Ca.
PB  - Braille Institute, 
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Disguise
KW  - Survival
KW  - Family life
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Juvenile Fiction
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Canadian Author
N1  - Contracted braille; Ages 11 and up; Original version; Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre, c2000; (170 p.); 0888994168
N2  - Parvana has lived with her mother, father, brother and baby brother for a year and a half in the third floor of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. When Parvana's father is taken to prison for reading books unrelated to the Qu'ran the family is put into a terrible position. Who will be able to earn a living where girls are forbidden to go outside alone, even for water ? Who will be the breadwinner where even professional women cannot use their skills and gifts except through the underground or through the help of other women in a network?
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