Study Guide

The Breadwinner Characters

By Deborah Ellis

Parvana is not your typical eleven-year-old girl, but she would certainly like to be. She is...

Father may be frail and old at first glance, but he is the family patriarch, and a source of...

Mother is one resilient woman. Thanks to the Taliban, she's lost a son, her career, her house,...

Nooria is a typical older sister—she's bossy and controlling and most of the time you just...

What do you get when you cross a linebacker with the team's mascot? Why Mrs. Weera, of course. A...

Shauzia, like Parvana, dresses up like a boy to support her family. She was Parvana's classmate...

Parvana's little brother and sister haven't been out of the house in eighteen months, and since...

Hossain was killed by a land mine when he was fourteen, before our story begins. And though this...