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The story of a child refugee

Mud City by Deborah Ellis

July 14, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr12bingo Yellow Mud City, the third novel in Ellis’ The Breadwinner series, is the story of Shauzia, the best friend of The Breadwinner’s main character Parvana. In book 1, readers learned that Shauzia, like Parvana, was pretending to be a boy in Taliban-controlled Kabul so that she could work and earn money to support her family at home. Women and girls were denied education and independence and to break the rules was to invite severe punishment, even death. While we don’t learn a lot about […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Deborah Ellis, ElCicco, Fiction, Mud City, ReadWomen, YA

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, Deborah Ellis, ElCicco, Fiction, Mud City, ReadWomen, YA ·
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