Deze serie volgt de levens van jonge meisjes die gedwongen worden hun weg te vinden in de harde realiteit van oorlogsgebieden en onder repressieve regimes. De verhalen benadrukken de buitengewone veerkracht, moed en vindingrijkheid die deze meisjes tentoonspreiden terwijl ze immense verantwoordelijkheden op zich nemen voor hun families. Het zijn aangrijpende verhalen over uithoudingsvermogen, vriendschap en hoop tegenover overweldigende tegenspoed.
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
The second book in The Breadwinner series by award-winning author, Deborah Ellis, tells the story of Parvana, travelling alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her family.
Shauzia is Parvana's friend from The Breadwinner. Now Shauzia has fled from Afghanistan, to a refugee camp in Pakistan. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp and travelling to France. Escape is not so easy. But Shauzia is determined to find a new future for herself. This is a story on the human situation in Afghanistan.
Fifteen-year-old Parvana has rebuilt her life after being reunited with her mother and sisters. But suspicion and fear towards the education of women have put them all in danger. When Parvana is held at an American army base in Afghanistan, suspected of being a terrorist, she must protect her family at all costs.