Breadwinner Series 5 Books Collection Set by Deborah Ellis - Young Adult - Paperback

Titles in This Set. The Breadwinner. Parvana's Journey. Mud City. My Name is Parvana. One More Mountain. Details. Condition: New. Format: Paperback. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Age Range: 11+. Overview. The Breadwinner Series 5 Books Collection Set brings together Deborah Ellis's acclaimed saga of Parvana, a girl who disguises herself as a boy to survive the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Across five interlinked paperback novels, readers follow Parvana and her friend Shauzia from childhood in Kabul through displacement, reunion and, decades later, a fresh flight from renewed Taliban control. This is essential reading for young adults, teachers and anyone drawn to honest, moving stories about courage during conflict.. About the Books. The series opens with The Breadwinner, in which eleven-year-old Parvana's father is arrested by Taliban soldiers, leaving the family unable to shop for food under laws forbidding women to leave home unaccompanied. Forced to pose as a boy to earn money, Parvana becomes the family's breadwinner. Parvana's Journey follows her alone across a war-torn countryside searching for her scattered family, gathering a makeshift family of displaced children along the way. In Mud City, the focus shifts to Parvana's best friend Shauzia, who has escaped Kabul only to find herself trapped in a refugee camp in Pakistan, still dreaming of a new life in France. My Name is Parvana jumps forward: a fifteen-year-old Parvana is discovered in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops, forcing her to confront how much has, and hasn't, changed for women in Afghanistan. The final instalment, One More Mountain, is set twenty years later in 2021, when the Taliban regain power and Parvana and Shauzia must once again find the courage to flee and protect the community they have built. Together, the five novels form a continuous record of one girl's life across decades of Afghan history, blending gripping storytelling with real test