Cartoon Saloon and Melusine Aircraft Pictures

This book would be good for 3-5 graders because of the depth of the topic. It isn't a very long book but some of the content may be too mature for younger students.
This book is about a young girl named Parvana who lives in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule. Since she is a young girl, she is not allowed out in public without being escorted by a male, so when her father is wrongfully arrested she changes her appearance and sets out to rescue her father.
This would be a good book to have available in the classroom that can teach students about the Taliban rule or the war in Afghanistan.… (más)

If you don't get a tear in your eye, you're heartless.

It's 2001, and Pavana lives in Kabul, Afghanistan. A taliban soldier who likes power strongly believes she should be home, behind closed doors. He then has her dad arrested, and the family has no way to get food or water because women can't leave their homes. Pavana cuts her hair to look like a boy in order to be the breadwinner and take over her father's business, which is selling a few goods, reading and writing for people.

You know what happened in 2001 in America which caused the US to bomb Afghanistan, right? With war coming, Pavana has little time to try and rescue her father. The only way out is an arranged marriage for her or her sister. It's a truthful book about what life was like for women before the war and, I fear, what life is now like for women now that the Taliban is once again in charge of the government.… (más)