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Author Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

Title The breadwinner [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] Deborah Ellis.

Edition Unabridged.
Imprint New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2008.
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Description 1 online resource (4 audio files) : digital
Playing Time 03:02:16
Description audio file rda
Series The Breadwinner.
Note Unabridged.
Performer Narrator: Rita Wolf.
Summary Imagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out.In this powerful and realistic tale, eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city during the Taliban rule. Parvana's father- a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed- works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day he is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As conditions in the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. Forbidden by the Taliban government to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner.
Audience Text Difficulty 7 - Text Difficulty 12
MG/Middle grades (4th-8th)
630 Lexile.
4.5 ATOS Level
System Details Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 85639 KB).
Subject Women's rights -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
Sex role -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
Disguise -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
Survival -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Fiction.
Afghanistan -- Fiction.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction. -- Sound recordings.
Genre Young adult fiction.
Electronic audiobooks.
Added Author Wolf, Rita.
ISBN 9780739366899 (sound recording)
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