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Kids of Kabul by Deborah Ellis
Call Number: 305.235 ELL
ISBN: 1554981816
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
Children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner. What has happened to Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out.
Afghanistan by Ruth Bjorklund
ISBN: 0531253503
Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Colourful photos provide breathtaking views of foreign cities and landscapes. Highlights especially interesting people, places, and events. Delicious, easy recipes give readers the opportunity to experience foreign cuisine firsthand.

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Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

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Saving Kabul Corner by N. H. Senzai
Call Number: F SEN
ISBN: 1442484942
Publication Date: 2014-02-04
From Afghanistan to America, family matters most in this companion to Shooting Kabul. Twelve-year-old Ariana couldn't be more different from her cousin Laila. The cousins, Mariam, and their newfound frenemie, Waleed Ghilzai, must ban together to help the families find a lasting peace before it destroys both businesses and everything their parents have worked for.
Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis; D. Ellis
Call Number: F ELL
ISBN: 0888994192
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because he has a foreign education, her father is arrested by the Taliban, the religious group that controls the country.

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