AuthorDeborah Ellis
NarratorRita Wolf
SeriesThe Breadwinner Series, Book 1
Duration3h 2m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
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.
Author: Deborah Ellis
Author Deborah Ellis
Narrator Meera Simhan
SeriesThe Breadwinner Series, Book 2
Duration 3h 48m
‘My life is dust and rocks and rude boys and skinny babies, and long days of searching for my mother when I don’t have the faintest idea where she might be.’Parvana is alone. Her father is dead. A refugee in a land full of dangers, she must travel across Afghanistan to find her mother and sisters.As she travels, Parvana finds frie...
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Author: Deborah Ellis
Author Deborah Ellis
Narrator Meera Simhan
SeriesThe Breadwinner Series, Book 4
Duration 4h 26m
In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now 15-years-old, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan.The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed, and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her id...
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Author: Deborah Ellis
Author Deborah Ellis
Narrator Meera Simhan
SeriesThe Breadwinner Series, Book 3
Duration 3h 4m
That was where she needed to be, in a field of purple flowers, where no one could bother her. She would sit there until the confusion left her head and the stink of the camp left her nostrils.Shauzia has a dream. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp in Pakistan and travelling to France. There she knows she would find a better life, away...
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