Title: Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner #2)
First published: 2002
Description: In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's father has just died, and her mother, sister, and brother could be anywhere in the country. Parvana knows she must find them.Despite her youth, Parvana sets out alone, masquerading as a boy. She soon meets other children who are victims of war -- an infant boy in a bombed-out village, a nine-year-old girl who thinks she has magic powers over landmines, and a boy with one leg. The children travel together, forging a kind of family out of sheer need. The strength of their bond makes it possible to survive the most desperate conditions.
Subjects: Families, Family, Survival, Fiction, War, Teenage girls, Refugee children, Juvenile fiction, Taliban, Determination (Personality trait), Missing persons, Women, Sex role, Family life, Reading Level-Grade 5, Reading Level-Grade 4, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 6, Reading Level-Grade 8, Social conditions, Refugee camps, History, Authors, Canadian (English), Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Femmes, Conditions sociales, Adolescentes, Personnes disparues, Détermination (Trait de personnalité), Camps de réfugiés, Talibans, Children's fiction, Afghanistan, fiction
Places: Afghanistan
LC classification: PZ7.E469 Par 2002