The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
The Breadwinner is the first book in Deborah Ellis's bestselling series set in Afghanistan.
UKS2/ LKS3 Fiction, Set around the world
This award-winning novel explores loyalty, survival, family and friendship under extraordinary circumstances. Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers.

Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own. Parvana, her mother, and sisters are prisoners in their own home. With no man to go out to buy food, they face starvation.

Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner to save her family. It is a dangerous plan, but their only chance. In fear, she goes out, and witnesses the horror of landmines, the brutality of the Taliban, and the desperation of a country trying to survive.

But even in despair lies hope . . .
 
176 pages
OUP 
paperback Feb 2023 edition
hardback 
paperback 9780192787385