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The breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. The family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre ;
Pub date: 2001.
Pages: 170 p. :
ISBN: 0888994192
Item info: 1 copy available at Main Library.
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The breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. The family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
The breadwinner
Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
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Leader: am aen
Key: OC 04715209
Data source: OC
Fixed field data: 000906s2001 oncb c 000 1 eng
LCCN: 00693536
ISBN: 0888994192
ISBN: 0888994168 (pbk.)
Local system #: (OCoLC)47120972
Cataloging source: DLC DLC DPL BRL
Authentication code: lcac
Local holdings: OCPP
LC Call Number: PZ7.E469 Br 2001
DDC class no.: [Fic] 21
Local DDC call #: Fiction
Personal name: Ellis, Deborah, 1960-
Title: The breadwinner / Deborah Ellis.
Publication info: Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre ; Berkeley, CA : Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West, 2001.
Description: 170 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
General note: "A Groundwood book."
Summary: Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Held by: MAIN ANDERSON BLUE_ASH CORRYVILLE ELMWOOD_PL GREEN_TWP GRNHILLS HARRISON HYDE_PARK MARIEMONT MIAMI_TWP MTWASHNGTN NRCENTRAL PLSNT_RDGE READING STBERNARD SHARONVLLE SYMMES_TWP WSTWOOD WYOMING
Corporate subject: Taliban--Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Women's rights--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Sex role--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Disguise--Juvenile fiction.
Topical subject: Girls--Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
Geographic term: Kabul (Afghanistan)--Juvenile fiction.
Geographic term: Afghanistan--Juvenile fiction.
OCLC-MARC processing: E0 OCP
Nat. bib. control #: 009310290
019: 47204156