Ellis, Deborah. Mud city.ELLIS, Deborah. Mud city. (The Bread winner Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. , Book 3.) Groundwood. 164p. map. c2003.0-88899-542-3. $5.95. JS To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2003: Ellis, familiar to NPR NPR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Nepal Rupee. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. listeners for her reporting from Afghanistan, has given us another novel about street children there (following Parvana's Journey and The Breadwinner bread·win·ner n. One whose earnings are the primary source of support for one's dependents. bread·win  ning n. ). Mud City is about an Afghani af·ghan·i n. pl. af·ghan·is See Table at currency. [Pashto afgh  n girl named Shauzia who is living in a refugee camp in Pakistan. She is a feisty girl, used to being on her own disguised as a boy, so she doesn't like the regulations of the camp very much. She has a dream of somehow saving enough money to get to France--a dream that has little chance of becoming reality. Most of the story is about Shauzia's experiences on the streets of Peshawar, where she and her beloved dog protect each other and survive by begging and doing odd jobs odd jobs npl → chapuzas fpl odd jobs npl → petits travaux divers odd jobs odd npl → . At one dramatic point in the story, Shauzia is jailed and by chance rescued by a European man who takes her home to his family in Peshawar to live. Ellis tells this part of the story adeptly, describing the cultural clash between the well-meaning Europeans and Shauzia, who has no way of relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the abundance of food, clothes, and other material wealth in her new home. There is a note at the end of the novel about the recent history of Afghanistan and the plight of the thousands of street children in that part of the world. Proceeds from the sales of this book will go to Street Kids International. Claire Rosser, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescent and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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