A review by cdel1313
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

4.0

This is a great Young Adult book about a girl who lives in Afghanistan under the regime of the Taliban. Parvana's father gets taken off to jail because he attended college in England years before the Taliban came into power. Parvana learns from her family that she must dress as a boy and work in the village, because she is the only one who can provide for them. Thus begins Parvana's journey, (which is actually the title of the second book in the trilogy). This is a great book to introduce kids (5th-6th grade?) to what life was (and is, in some parts) like in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime.