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Ellis, Deborah
PARVANA'S JOURNEY
Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre,
2002.
IL 5-8, RL 6.3
ISBN 0888995148
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| Parvana
is now on her own. She and her father have been traveling through
the Afghanistan countryside trying to find the rest of the family.
But now her father has died and Parvana is on her own. Even though
a nice family offers to take her in, she knows she must continue to search
for her mother and sisters. Dressed as a boy to avoid the Taliban
rules, Parvana sets out on her journey. She soon comes upon a baby
whose mother has died in a bombing. Parvana decides to take the baby
with her. At another stop, she comes upon a young boy who has lost
a leg and is in poor health. She takes him along also. As the
weeks go by, Parvana begins to wonder if life will ever be as it was before.
In a letter to a friend, she writes "It's hard to remember that I used
to sleep in a bed and had to do my homework before I could watch television
and play with my friends. ... My life is dust and rocks and rude
boys and skinny babies, and long days of searching for my mother when I
don't have the faintest idea where she might be." Join the children
as they search for a place to be and a reason to go on. |
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SUBJECTS:
Women -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Family life -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction. |
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