Parvana's Journey

Award: 
Best Books for Young Adults
Year this Award was Won: 
2 003
Press release title and URL: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/annotations/…
Award Win Active Date: 
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 19:00
Defunct Winner UID: 
2 810
Winner Rank: 
SLCT
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Parvana's Journey
Winner Description: 
by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre, $15.95.
Winner Blurb: 

After her father died of the sickness that had dogged him since they had left Kabul, thirteen-year-old Parvana, disguised as a boy, wanders alone through war-torn Afghanistan looking for her mother and siblings who had disappeared in the tumult of the Taliban takeover of Mazer-e-Sharif, and forming a new family of abandoned children she has met along the way.

Title of a book, article or other published item (this will display to the public): 
Parvana's Journey
ISBN of the winning item: 
0-88899-514-8
What type of media is this winner?: 
Book
Winner Detail Create Date: 
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 08:57
Winner Detail Change Date: 
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 08:57
Winner Detail Change ID: 
201
Winner Type: 
PTMD
Award Winner Category (start typing): 
Fiction