This resource would be useful as a followup to reading My Name is Parvana to get real children's perspectives of living in this country. All royalties from the sale of Kids of Kabul will also go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. Author Deborah Ellis Suitable for: 11+ Price: £7.

Parvana’s Fund provides grants toward education projects for Afghan women and children, including schools, libraries and literacy programs. My Name is Parvana View larger Fourth book in Deborah Ellis award-winning Breadwinner series, set in Afghanistan. Many are girls Deb met through projects funded by Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan (the organization that is supported by royalties from The Breadwinner Trilogy. The two dozen or so children featured in the book range in age from ten to seventeen. Violence and oppression still exist, particularly affecting the lives of girls, but the kids are weathering their lives with courage and optimism: 'I was incredibly impressed by the sense of urgency these kids have - needing to get as much education and life experience and fun as they can, because they never know when the boom is going to be lowered on them again.' They are still living in a country torn apart by war. She interviewed children who spoke about their lives now. In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out. But what has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001?

By reading the story of eleven-year-old Parvana and her struggles living under the terror of the Taliban, young readers came to know the plight of children in Afghanistan. Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. Below is a summary of the book from Amazon. Rather than a fictional representation of the conditions in Afghanistan, Ellis talks to children to get their perspective. Deborah Ellis wrote Kids of Kabul as a follow up to the Breadwinner series.

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