Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.Īnalyze 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).Ĩ0 pages | 6.87' x 10. Readers will want to linger over this powerful graphic novel with its striking art and inspiring story.Ĭorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy, and become the breadwinner. 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.Īs conditions for the family grow desperate, only one solution emerges. 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. Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city. This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

The book ends with an alarming development that leaves Parvana's story very much up in the air, encouraging readers to continue with the trilogy. But the takeaway message is about strength, resiliency, and hope.

Deborah Ellis’s bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel. There's a significant amount of violence: physical assaults, brutal punishments, stories of terrible deaths, and dogs devouring bodies.

The breadwinner novel