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The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel
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Deborah Elliss bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel.This beautiful graphicnovel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of elevenyearold Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Talibans rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombedout apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistans capital city. Parvanas 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.Readers will want to linger over this powerful graphic novel with its striking art and inspiring story.Key Text Featuresspeech bubblescaptionshistorical noteCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.4.1Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.CCSS.ELALITERACY.RL.5.7Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
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