this is the sequel to the bread winner so you should read that first but this a pretty good book. you can know how some people from there feel like as well.

I love this series so much. This one (the second) is every bit as good as the first.

I read this series about a decade ago during my pre-teen years and I believe it had a profound impact on broadening my understanding of the world in a real way by showcasing brutality alongside beauty of humanity

A very good book. I probably won't be reviewing it though, and even though I put 4 stars, it's closer to a 4.5 I think.

Parvana's Journey has some really funny moments and some really hard moments. They weave together as all part of what life is for her and her companions. I love watching Parvana and Asif fight constantly in such silly ways and how even in their circumstances, their belief is so quick to rise. The best example of this is when Parvana convinces herself and Asif that there is treasure buried under their cave floor. And they do find something! Sadly, it is a treasure for their tormentors: bullets that are only good for continuing the violence they're trying to escape. There is hope mixed into their reality at all times, moments of rest, and the usual stress and conflict of a family as they travel onward, unwilling to lose each other and unable to stay still until they find a home.

Parvana is a girl in midst of a terrible war in Afghanistan. Her father has just died and she desperately wants to find her mother and siblings. She disguises herself as a boy in order to travel without great difficulty in her country. Everywhere there are enormous obstacles. She cannot find food. She cannot find clean water. She must travel across mine fields. She runs across a baby and a one-legged boy and a little girl who all travel with her, who all add to her burden of finding food and water and a safe place to pass the night.

It’s a beautiful story of great struggle, told from the point of view of a child, who sees all the miseries of war and bravely asks why and dares to seek a life without the ongoing ugliness of war.

It is Parvana’s memory of her friend who set off to find the purple fields of France that inspires her to go on, even after encountering the wailing woman, even after seeing the baby come close to death, even after trying to push the irritating one-legged boy on, even after walking for days with no food and no water.

This is a book I can see myself telling everyone I know that they must read.

A 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up.

Poor Parvana! Will good things ever happen for her? Good things are few and far between in this book, but I like to think that things would be better for her in the future - if there were another book telling her story after this one. She certainly deserves some good things after all she goes through while maintaining her hope in a better future.