Oh my! This was an amazing book! This story was absolutely heart wrenching. From the very beginning of the book you are totally engulfed in this story and the characters lives. The book was about Parvana an Afghan girl who came from a wealthy family. Both her parents were educated and her mother was a published author. Then enters the Taliban and Parvana and her family's lives are torn apart.
When the Taliban came into power women's rights were taken away and Parvana's mother wasn't allowed to even leave the house without a male escort or a written note from a male figure in the house, she definitely couldn't work anymore. One day the Taliban arrested Parvana's father and when Parvana and her mother went into town to have him released they were beaten. This part of the story was completely gut wrenching to me. I couldn't imagine how they must of felt with all their freedom just stripped away like that. Parvana decides that in order for her to help her family she must cut her hair and wear her dead brothers clothes. She does this and goes out to work to make money for her family. Their lives never really get easier and the family under goes many more struggles. This book has a sequel which I am very interested in reading!
I would use this book in a 4th or 5th grade class. It would be a great way to show students how lucky we are to live in the United States where we have freedoms that were stripped away from these poor people in Afghanistan. It will also open the eyes of students to show them that people who live in Afghanistan aren't all bad and the Taliban does horrible things to these people. I highly recommend this book.
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