Independent Reading: week 3

NAME: Sofia Garcia
DATE: 3.9.08
TITLE: Parvana's Journey
TIME: 2 HOURS
AUTHOR: Deborah Ellis
PAGES: 196
TOTAL PAGES THIS WEEK: 196
RESPONSE:
The book Parvana's Journey is the sequel to the book that I read two weeks ago, The Breadwinner. This book tales place two years after the first book. The difference between Parvana's journey and the  Breadwinner is that in that this book is a lot sadder than the first book. In this book Parvana's father dies so she has to travel alone in the country side of Afghanistan to find her mother and sister.  She is still disguised as a boy and if the Taliban finds her thinking she is a boy they would put her in the army, if she discovered as a girl she would get in trouble for not wearing a burqa.  Every where Parvana looks there is death and destruction.  On her journey she finds an baby boy who's mom got killed, a 9-year-old who lost his leg to land mines, and a little girl who is taking care of her aged grandmother until a bomb kills her grandmother.  Together these starving children travel Afghanistan.  This book is really sad, it made me cry, but it made me realize how good we have it and how lucky we are to live in a safe country.