All royalties from the sale of this book will go to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. The reissue includes a new cover and map, an updated author’s note and a glossary to provide young readers with background and context. And, as they forge their own family in the war zone that Afghanistan has become, their resilience, imagination and luck help them to survive. 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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