Notes

a graphic novel /
based on the original book by Deborah Ellis ; adapted from the feature film directed by Nora Twomey ; text adapted by Shelley Tanaka.

77 pages :

chiefly colour illustrations.

Summary: Paravana 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 can't 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.