The Breadwinner Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Deborah Ellis
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
413

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Book Summary

"All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York Times

The first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. 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 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.

The fifteenth anniversary edition includes a special foreword by Deborah Ellis as well as a new map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Parvana’s Fund supports education projects for Afghan women and children.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

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Book Name The Breadwinner
Genre Culture, Places & People in Young Adult Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 2.4 MB

The Breadwinner (Deborah Ellis) Book Reviews 2024

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hey. it was okay

Omg needed. I need to read this book for my book project I wonder where I could get one if I don't get one I might buy this instead. :(

Great storyline. The book pulls you in and really makes you want to read it more. Teenage reading level but a great story for older folks as well!

Breadwinner:). It is an awesome book and you should read it I read it at school

Good. It was the best summer reading book I had to read!!!

The breadwinner. I liked this book. It had many different problems and solutions. I actually felt like I wanted to read the whole trilogy. But I was busy I'll get to it one day.

The Breadwinner. This is an amazing book I love love the drama in the store and every word of it I loved! 😍

The Breadwinner. I read this book for reading class and was amazed by the living standards in other countries.

Wow Genuinely Impressed. When you proceed to read the book it is a roller coaster of a ride all the way through the book.

The Breadwinner. Awesome book we read it at my school.

Bland. This was a slow paced book, which may be good in some books, but it wasn’t in this one. There was no emotion, and I really didn’t feel anything when something ‘terrible’ occurred because it isn’t described well. Would not recommend.

!!. Love it!!

Great book!. I read this and loved this book, it's filled with suspense all the way!

This is a great book. I absolutely love this book everyone should read it

Revelatory. This is a book from my sixth grader’s Humanities class. Sobering to be transported from first world consumerist luxury to the home of a family struggling to eat, live, and learn. It is heartening to experience tragedy through the eyes of a child. They naturally tend towards hope and happiness. These are stories that need to be told and I am so pleased that our children are hearing them.

Horrible book. So boring but so juicy, it’s weird😔😔😔

The breadwinner. Really good book I'm happy I read it!!!

Love it. OMG I had to read this book for school and I'm hooked! This was for my seventh grade geography class and I love it!!!!! :)

THIS BOOK. UM THIS IS A GOOD BOOK. YES¿? YA¡!

Very slow paced..... There was no climax, and the concept is used to often. And there was no emotion! I got bombed..... Really?

The Bread Winner. It is a really good book.

Awesome. This book is so cool that you can't stop reading it!!!

Great read!. This book was a great read! I LOVED EVERY CHAPTER!!!!!!!

The Breadwinner. I really enjoyed to read this book. It was very interesting. I read every word of it and bought the second one ''Parvana's Journey''

The Breadwinner. Wonderful and insightful. Great book for kids to learn about what/why is happening in our world today. Our 7th graders read it and were moved to the point of initiating a fund raiser to help the children of Afghanistan.

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Fantastic and genuine!. The movie was done in s very compassionate, conscious and relatable way. Making the movie animated was definitely the way to better get the message across.

Amazing book. I love it such an adventurous and emotional book filled with great sensory images

Great book!. I think this book is an inspiration to girls and women all around the world to never give up and lose hope when times are tough.

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Summary of The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

The The Breadwinner book written by Deborah Ellis was published on 01 September 2000, Friday in the Culture, Places & People in Young Adult Fiction category. A total of 413 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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