Parvana's Journey (Breadwinner Series #2)

Parvana's Journey

I thought this was amazing book and I am now reading the third book, Mud City and I love it so far. I recommend this book to all 5th graders and up. I am in 5th grade and it was nit a hard read for ke at all. I wish Parvana was really a person but in the book she was real to me.

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I love it

This is one of my favirot booksnin the world if you liked the breadwinner you are shure to like this book to

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Parvana's Journey

This book keeps you on the edge of your seat even if your not sitting on a chiar. Parvana's dad just past away and she still continues her journey to find her mother and brother after being split apart by war. Every 5 pgs Parvana seems to get her self in to a pickle and always getting her self in to trouble

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My 6th grade class loved this book!

I was hesitant to read a chapter book with my class because it was my first year teaching. I stumbled upon this book by accident. Our school librarian asked me if I was interested in the book for my class. I read it that night and loved it! It took my class about three weeks to read it, and it was well worth it. They absolutely loved it and can't wait to read Parvana's Journey. Their reaction to the story blew me away. I teach about one hundred sixth graders, and I don't think there is one that would say they didn't enjoy the story. That says a lot about a book!

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I really lovved this story

it was so touching and emotional, it really helped me understand and be grateful for what i have now

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Alissa Rashid, avid reader and loves different cultures

I love this book and series. I have read this book 3 times and I feel like I am right there. I feel This book is very inspirational and everyone should read this book. Us Americans are very spoiled and need to appertate what we have even if it's not much. My 3rd grade teacher read us the breadwinner I fell in love with series right away. Deborah Ellis is excellant at realing in the reader. I can never put down this series. I am only ten and in fifth grade but I have read many other books and the Breadwinner triolgy is still and always my favorite book (s) and series.

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I badly want this shit

I just wantt to read this book

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My sixth grade class would rush in2 the room diing to read it

Our scoial studied teacher would read this book to us amd we just loved it!! We finishedd the first but wasn not done with the second!!!!! So i really wanna finish it! AND FOR PPL WH HAVE NOT READ IT YET DO NOT READ WHAT I HAVE TO SAY OR IT WILL GIVE IT ALL AWAY!!!!! We got to the part wHere parvana is with the baby and boy and girl and the bomb killed the grandma and now they are watching the mud house burn. Cannot wait to finish it!

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Parvana's Journey

usually I don't read books but, I had to read one for class and seriousley LOVED IT.

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such an mind catching book!

parvana struggles and fights back for her family. her father dies but that doesnt mean she isnt going to give up she meets three unforgetable friends that fight together and survive.

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Educational and Inspiring

When I first look at the cover of this book I thought it was going to be very dull and I only read it because of an extra curricular activity I¿m in. On the cover there is only four children and some big hills and the paragraph on the back isn't that interesting, but when I started to read it, it became very interesting. By half way through the book, I didn¿t want to put it down. I rated it three stars because it has a lot of excitement in it, and in every chapter there is something new and exciting happening. It all began when Parvana¿s village was getting bombed and her family got split up. She went with her father on a long journey to find the rest of their family. Sadly, her father died from and illness somewhere in Afghanistan. Since she didn¿t know where the rest of her family was, she had to go and live with the only family that would take her. One night, the oldest daughter of the family she was living with told her that people were coming the next day to take her away. So she decided to continue her journey with only her belongings and some food. On her journey, she found a baby in a deserted village. She named him Hassan and took him with her on her journey. After a while she found a cave and inside was a lonely boy named Asif. From the beginning, Parvana and Asif didn¿t like each other, but Asif too came along on the journey. Food was gone, water was gane, and they were exhausted. One day they stopped for a rest, and Parvana and Asif started to see who could throw a rock farther, and when they did, they set of a bomb in the minefield. Shortly after the explosion, they saw a little girl coming towards them from the distends. Her name was Leila and she had been living in a house just outside of the minefield with her grandmother. Leila took them back to her house and they lived there for a while, mostly because there was lots of food and a nice shelter. After about a month, they could hear bombs going off in the distends. One night the bombs seemed even louder and all of a sudden their house got hit! Did they survive? Will Parvana ever see her mother and sisters again? It would be easy for me to just tell you and save you the trouble of reading the book, but since I enjoyed it so much, its up to you to find out if they survive. I enjoyed this book a lot for many reasons, but one of the main things I enjoyed the most about it is that in every chapter something new and thrilling happens. Another thing I liked so much was that it gives you a lot of information on how life would be like if your country were having a war. It makes me think of how lucky I am for living in a country that doesn¿t go into wars often. Also the author gave a lot of background on each character which made it easier to see why they looked the way they did and did certain things. I also learned one very important thing while reading this book. I learned that you should never judge a book by its cover because inside could be a very exciting story that you might really enjoy. Plus if the story is so good and is winning lots of awards, I think that the author should hire someone to make the cover a little more interesting. But over all I thoroughly enjoyed this story and I think it would be a smart move if you were to go ahead and read this book. (You won¿t regret it!)

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Excellent!

Sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey follows Parvanah as she searches for her mother and sister after her father's death. A haunting book, depicting the harsh reality of life for Afghan refugees, told through the eyes of a child. I highly recommend this book, and The Breadwinner to anyone seeking to gain an understanding of the human cost of the Afghan war.

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Good

Parvana's Journey was a good book. It wasn't as good as The Breadwinner. But this was still a good read. When my sister told me Deborah Ellis had come up with a sequel to that book, we were going to Chicago. There was a Barnes&Nobles there and when we got there, I found it and bought it. It was really pure luck I started reading The Breadwinner at all. We were in Barnes&Nobles, and I found this good looking book called the Breadwinner. This book was sort of sad. There is a lot of bombing and killing. So if you don't like that, you should stay away from this book. I thought this was an ok book. But not quite as good.

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Awsome book ever

When i read the furst book then found this one i read it about 10 times. My teacher asked what happened in the book and i jnew all of what had happened. I suggeest this to ages 10 and up.

Such an inspiration!!!!!

I loved it. I just couldn't put it down

Inspiration to all

This book has touhed me in many ways. As a girl who looses her father she has to survive on her own, she meets new people and finds her lost family. What more inspiration cabn one person need.

I think it's a so-so book, but its got really important stuff concerning the Taliban. But I think The Breadwinner is a better book.

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A Professional Review

Parvana¿s Journey Reviewed by Alex Levenson Parvana¿s Journey the sequel to The Breadwinner is a story about a girl who has lost her family in the very violent country of Afghanistan. But that¿s not half of it. On the way she must fight sickness, bombs and ignorant people. She also finds new people who have almost given up hope. This book puts you right in the middle of all the sadness. In this story you meet a girl named Parvana an average girl that had an average life. Now she¿s on a search for her family who has gone across the country to get her sister married. Parvana is a smart girl who has learned a high level of academics such as Math and the English language as well as the 2 Afghani languages: Dari and Pashtu. Unlike most Afghanistan people who were unable to study due to the Taliban, Parvana perseveres. This is truly an amazing story because of the real setting and events. The Taliban is a real organization today. In the story Parvana finds a few additions to her family including a boy with one leg. As she continues in her story it tells you how she tries to keep the memory of her father alive. Deborah Ellis describes the stillness and feeling of death after a bombing very well. This story is not only a great story but also a donation to the women in Afghanistan. This story really describes the horrors of what is happening to the people in Afghanistan. You will learn so much from this book you will thirst for the sequel.

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Not as Good as the Breadwinner

Parvana's Journey isn't as good as The Breadwinner. That's normally how iy goes though, the second one is not really as good as the first. This book was well writen and very interesting. The author really shows that no matter how hard Parvana tries to be the adult and take care of the younger children she and the rest need a real adult to care for them. Each charcter is brought to life and has their own personality. I would suggest reaing The Breadwinner first or else some of the stuff wouldn't make since. I would recommand this book to middle schoolers, it might be to hard for younger students to understand.

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