Books like Parvana (The Breadwinner #1) by Deborah Ellis

A dark, passionate tale set on the West Yorkshire moors, following the tumultuous love and revenge between the Earnshaws, Lintons, and the enigmatic Heathcliff.

Three teenagers from different eras and continents embark on perilous journeys to escape war, persecution, and tyranny, each facing drowning, bombings and betrayal, yet their stories converge, showing that hope endures across time and borders.

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 follows eighth‑grader Ramona as she navigates a new school, new friends, and the challenges of growing up, all while balancing family expectations and her mischievous sense of humor.

After her mother leaves, thirteen‑year‑old Sal travels with her grandparents, retracing her mother’s path while recounting her friend Phoebe’s story of loss and understanding.

When the Taliban seize Kabul, 11‑year‑old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner and survive the harsh restrictions on Afghan women.

Eleven‑year‑old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to become her family’s breadwinner after her father is arrested and the Taliban forbid girls from working.

After her father’s death, ten‑year‑old Parvana journeys alone through war‑torn Kabul, dressing as a boy to find her family and help other children survive the Taliban’s oppression.

A young girl and her sister confront the loss of their parents to AIDS while living with a grandmother in rural Malawi, revealing the human face of Africa's AIDS epidemic.

Rose Campbell returns to her roots in this sequel to 'Eight Cousins'.

Fifteen‑year‑old Parvana returns to her village after years in hiding to help her mother run a newly opened girls’ school, but when local men threaten the school, she must rely on her courage to protect her family.

"From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.