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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal issues
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Pearl, Our Butterfly
(Hardcover)
Tuula Pere; Illustrated by Catty Flores; Edited by Susan Korman
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R637
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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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