Home
About Us
Contact Us
Help
Jobs
News
Site Index
OUP Worldwide
Advanced Search
My Account
My Wish List
Sign In/Register
View Basket
Email this to a Friend
Printer-Friendly View
Basket: 0 items | £0.00
You are here:
Home
>
Children's & Schools
>
Children's Books
>
Fiction
>
Mud City
View Larger
Mud City
Deborah Ellis
160 pages | 198x129mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-275376-2
Publication Date: 04 March 2004
Price:
£5.99
Add to Wish List
Suitable for:
Age 9+ years
The third book in the bestselling
Breadwinner
trilogy
Shauzia is Parvana's friend from
The Breadwinner
. Now Shauzia has fled from Afghanistan, to a refugee camp in Pakistan. But Shauzia has a dream. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp and travelling to France. There she knows she would find a better life, away from the war in her home country of Afghanistan
But escape is not so easy. Once she leaves the camp, she has no money, no food - and only her dog Jasper for company. But Shauzia is determined to find a new future for herself
This is another deeply moving story from
Deborah Ellis
, which casts light for readers on the ongoing human situation in Afghanistan.
Features
The previous two books in this sequence,
The Breadwinner
and
Parvana's Journey
, have sold more than 50,000 copies in the UK
As international interest continues to focus on Afghanistan, this novel tells the human story behind the headlines
Tackles the topical issue of refugees
Based on impeccable research in an Afghan refugee camp
Like
The Breadwinner
and
Parvana's Journey
, this is an engrossing and deeply moving story about a child reacting courageously to difficult events
The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
About Us
|
Contact Us
|
Help
|
Jobs
|
News
|
Site Index
|
OUP Worldwide
Email this to a Friend
|
Printer-Friendly View
|
Accessibility
Copyright © Oxford University Press 2009
|
Privacy Policy
|
Legal Notice
