Parvana Book Report

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The book relates on a girl named Parvana who is 11 years old and lived in a war torn city with disastrous things happen. The city she lives in is Kabul in Afghanistan. Taliban set curfews for the people’s to be home by. At night the city was dark and gloomy with no lights. Parvana would do work for the family cause her dad went to prison because the Taliban found that he had books and girls were not allowed to be educated. He would always read to Parvana at night and that’s what made Parvana feel safe to go to sleep. Parvana would read letters to people to earn money for her family. Mrs. Weera was Parvana’s gym teacher before the Taliban took over. Mrs Weera would always tell Parvana to go fill the water bucket for her family. Mrs. Weera decided

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