The Breadwinner. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis, 2000
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Nora Twomey, 2017

Parvana is an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul under the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Her father, Nurullah, is a school teacher was left physically impaired during the Soviet–Afghan War; because of the war, he lost his left leg and became a hawker. When her father is captured, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.


Funny Boy. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1994 book
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Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai, 1994
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Deepa Mehta, 2020

Explores Arjie’s sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.