The Breadwinner

The Breadwinner is a book suitable for anyone who loves to read a book. It's not complicated, but it's touching. The first time I read this book was when I was ten, and it was hard. I re-read the book on the internet and found a deeper meaning than just the words. The book is about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to help her family survive in hard times of war. She sees the cold world through a boy's eyes, and knows that there must be something done to stop the war. Her family is in hiding in a small apartment is a partially ruined building. They are scared to death that the soldiers might come to arrest them and possible send them to different jails. The book has a great story line, and it's a read-in-one-sit kind of novel. The characters are created for the reader to visualize, and every time the character says something, you sit and think... would I look at it this way. Deborah Ellis has made the story flow with amazing word choice, and keeps sentences flowing with little interruptions of digressed topics. If you want to read a heart-wrenching book, pick up The Breadwinner and discover what it's like to live in a war devastated area, but in the perspective of an innocent citizen.