| ID | 024984 |
| Call Number | FIC/ELL |
| Title Proper | Breadwinner: a graphic novel |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ellis, Deborah |
| Publication | Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017. |
| Description | 77p Brown Spine |
| Note | Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. 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 having forbidden books, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges, Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner. |
| Standard Number | 9780192768568 |
| Price. Qualification | £8.99(Pb) |
| Classification Number | FIC |
| Key Words | RISK TAKER ; Afghanistan - Fiction ; Women's rights - Fiction ; Gender discrimination - Fiction ; War fiction ; Lexile GN510L ; Taliban - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Disguise - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Girls - Afghanistan - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Sex role - Afghanistan - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Women's rights - Afghanistan - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - Comic books, strips, etc. ; Afghanistan -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc. ; Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001 -- Comic books, strips, etc. ; Kabul (Afghanistan) -- Comic books, strips, etc. ; GN |