Parvana's Journey

This book is about Parvana and her journey. Written by Deborah Ellis and first published in 2002. Parvana lived with a family of 7 Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a small country in central Asia. The Taliban military took over Kabul in September 1996. The Taliban had ordered all girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girls to go to school. So Parvana and her sister had to give up school life. Afghanistan had been in war for about 20 years. Parvana and her family moved from their bombed house and found another safer house to stay in. They couldn't take everything they had so they talk the important gear they needed. Parvana would go to the market with her father hiding herself to go read to men who needed help with reading. This is the only way of getting their family money to survive and feed their children. One day Parvana's father was arrested by the Taliban so Parvana worked for her family and had to act and dress like a boy to help her family survive.