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    Mud City

    Written by Deborah Ellis

    Narrated by Meera Simhan

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    That was where she needed to be, in a field of purple flowers, where no one could bother her. She would sit there until the confusion left her head and the stink of the camp left her nostrils.

    Shauzia has a dream. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp in Pakistan 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 22, 2009
    ISBN9780739385821
    Author

    Deborah Ellis

    DEBORAH ELLIS is the author of The Breadwinner, which has been published in thirty languages. She has won the Governor General’s Award, the Middle East Book Award, the Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award. A recipient of the Order of Canada, Deborah has donated more than $2 million in royalties to organizations such as Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, Mental Health Without Borders and the UNHCR. She lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

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    • 5/5
      This book really gives the other side of what we see in Iraq, Baghdad, etc. We only see the war, but here a preteen girl (who pretends to be a boy) shows us what her dreams are, and how she plans to get to them. In the end, she walks in a circle, but has learned something along the way.
    • 5/5
      Mud City is the third book chronicling the life a young girl struggling to survive on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the late 1990s/early 2000s. The main character, Shauzia, is full of fight. A vibrant spirit, that isn't going to let her dire situation destroy her. She continues to fight to survive and over comes many difficult situations. Shauzia is introduced in the the first book of this series The Breadwinner. Deborah Ellis continues the story of Shauzia in Mud City. The plot of the third book is just as quick as the first, and she even leaves space for a possible fourth book. Mud City is a fast paced book with danger on every page turn!
    • 5/5
      Around the world there are srceams for help that are not heard but none louder than the voices of those who possess a strong will. this is one story of that struggle that makes you want to just take them away but then realize there are millions of other who face the same hardship. its a huge struggle that weighs heavy in your heart. this story is an amazing story of a little person who needs to be someone else in order to survive. A must read!
    • 5/5
      I really loved this book. It was so eye opening. And I would recommend it to anyone!!!
    • 4/5
      a good,enticing storyline about parvana's friend shauzia and where her adventures lead her
    • 3/5
      The third book in Deborah Ellis's much-heralded Breadwinner Trilogy, Mud City follows the story of fourteen-year-old Shauzia, whose friend Parvana's story is featured in The Breadwinner and Parvana's Journey. Restless and unhappy in the women's compound of an Afghani refugee camp, Shauzia disguises herself as boy and seeks employment in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. But after a brief incarceration and an unsuccessful sojourn with an American family, she finds herself back where she started, slowly realizing that for a refugee, there is no easy escape...Although it offered some welcome insights into the difficulties faced by refugees, as well as the cultural misunderstandings that frequently occur between westerners and the people of Afghanistan/Pakistan, I did not find Mud City as powerful a reading experience as the previous two in the series. I am unsure whether this is owing to the slightly less traumatic nature of the events chronicled, to the high expectations generated by the excellence of the first two titles, or to the fact that Shauzia makes a less likable heroine than Parvana. However that may be, although I would not rate this as highly as the others, it is still a worthwhile read, particularly given the dearth of good reading material for young readers about that part of the world.
    • 5/5
      So heart wrenching sad that kids grow up like this but Shauzia restores some of my faith in humanity.

      I really loved this book - highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Companion novel to Parvana and Parvana’s Journey. Focuses on Parvana’s friend, Shauzia. In the first two novels, both of these girls dress as boys and sell tea in order to support their families. In this novel, Shauzia and Parvana have separated. Shauzia is determined to earn enough money to go to France. At the start, she is in a refugee camp. She runs away with her dog Jasper, and survives on the streets doing odd jobs and begging. Shauzia is accused of stealing and ends up in jail. Her release is paid for by an American family who have befriended Jasper. She lives with them for a while until she is taken back to the refugee camp where she started. In the end, she decides to return to Afghanistan to help after America attacks.Easy to read.