![]() ![]() The children travel together because it is easier than being alone. Making her way across the desolate Afghan countryside, she meets other children who are strays from 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 who is so obnoxious that Parvana can hardly stand him. She sets out alone, masquerading as a boy, her journey becoming more perilous as the bombs begin to fall. 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. In 2001, a war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. ![]() ![]() The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is Parvana ![]()
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