My name is Parvana

Resource Information

The work My name is Parvana represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Mid-Continent Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

My name is Parvana

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Ellis

Creator

• Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

Author

• Ellis, Deborah, 1960-

Subject

• Girls -- Education -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction
• New_Fiction
• Sex role -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction
• Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction
• Families -- Afghanistan -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Found wandering alone in a bombed-out Afghan school, 15-year-old Parvana mystifies American military forces by remaining silent, while spending her time remembering the past four years of her life, having been reunited with her mother and sisters and living in a village where her mother has finally managed to open a school for girls

Member of

• Breadwinner series, 4

Cataloging source

NLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

670L

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

• MG
• 6-8

Literary form

fiction

Reading level

• 4.6
• 4.2

Series statement

Breadwinner series

Series volume

4

Study program name

• Accelerated Reader AR
• Reading Counts RC

Target audience

pre adolescent