PARVANAS JOURNEY

The second book in the bestselling Breadwinner series set in war torn Afghanistan Parvana s father has died and her mother sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding not knowing what has happened to the father Parvana doesn t know where they are She just knows she has to find them She sets out alone disguised as a boy her journey becoming more perilous as the bombs begin to fall Making her way across the desolate Afghan countryside she meets other children who have been caught up in the war an infant boy in a bombed out village a nine year old girl who believes she has magical powers over land mines and a boy with one leg The children travel together because it is easier than being alone And as they forge their own family in the war zone that Afghanistan has become their resilience imagination and luck help them to survive