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Breadwinner series volume 1
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When Parvana's father is arrested and taken to jail, she must disuise herself as a boy in order to earn money for her family.
2) Wanting Mor
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After the death of her mother and her father's remarriage, Jameela finds herself a virtual slave to her new stepmother. Then when Jameela is abandoned in a busy market in Kabul and ends up in an orphanage she turns to the memory of her mother to sustain her.
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Breadwinner series volume 5
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When the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, all of Parvana's hard-won gains--for her family, her school and her country--are at risk.
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Breadwinner series volume 4
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Parvana is imprisoned and interrogated by American soldiers when she is found wandering around alone in a bombed-out school in Afghanistan.
6) Mud city
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Breadwinner series volume 3
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Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, flees Afghanistan and is faced with surviving on her own on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan.
7) Shadow
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Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller
A stunning and moving novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller - featuring the bravest dog in all the world...
This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words - a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially...
10) Extra credit
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
11) Ground Zero
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Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
12) A sky-blue bench
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Young Aria returns to school after recovering from an accident and being fitted with a prosthetic leg, but the school has no furniture and sitting on the floor is too painful. She finds a way to build her own bench, surprising and inspiring her classmates. Includes a sensitive author's note describing the author's experience growing up in Afghanistan during the civil war and the legacy of landmines.
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