![]() ![]() The Breadwinner(2001) is about eleven-year-old Parvana, a girl who pretends she is a boy in order to earn money for her family while her father is in prison. ![]() In 1996, she visited Afghanistan to visit with women after hearing about their mistreatment under the Taliban, and during her visit, she heard of a girl who pretended to a boy in order to support her family.Įllis decided to turn this story into a book. And we've got a hunch that Taliban probably wouldn't like Deborah Ellis either.ĭeborah Ellis is from Canada, and is a counselor and writer but most notably, she is an activist for women and for peace. Malala was a teenager living in Pakistan under Taliban rule, when she was shot in the head by a Taliban soldier one day on her way home from school-all because they didn't like that she was an advocate for women's education. ![]()
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