Parvana

1. Parvana

2. The current situation in Afghanistan • 22 Jun 2012: Eleven-hour gun battle to free hostages in hotel and restaurant at Qargha Lake targeted for serving alcohol to foreigners • 27 Jun 2012: Rescue ships save more than 120 Afghan asylum seekers after a second boat in a week capsizes off Indonesia • 26 Jun 2012: Pakistani military says 13 soldiers were killed, including seven who were beheaded, after attack on patrol in Upper Dir region • 22 Jun 2012: Eighteen people rescued and two killed after bombers attack the Spozhmai hotel at Qargha Lake • 7 Jun 2012: US defence secretary says Pakistan is offering safe havens to terrorists as he arrives in Kabul for Nato talks

3. Summary for Parvana Well at the start of the book Parvana and her dad started to walk and find there mother (WIFE) but while they where walking her dad got really sick and died so she had to bury him and she put rocks around him so she will remember him. Then she walked to a field and the guys she met they where going to tell the Taliban, but she didn’t want that so she ran away to a bombed village and found Hassan so she took him and went to a cave and met asif but he didn’t come out because he was shy but when Parvana cooked some food asif came out and Parvana look at him and him he had one leg so they ate food and they stayed there at the cave for awhile and kept walking and walking they where so hungry and thirsty and they came to a village that had water and food but they could only get that if they worked so they said that asif could do the work and they eat the food together but when asif was finished the people said that only asif could eat the food because he did the work so asif ate the food after that they kept walking and walking and they came to a field and they played a stone compition and asif threw a big rock and the landmines went off. They met this girl called Leila and she took them to her house and they met her grandmother. Lailas grandmother was looking after Leila because she lost her mum. Her mum was in another state like Parvanas mum. Parvana, Leila, asif and Hassan made a village they called it the green valley but when the bombs went off the bombs killed lailas grandmother and the green village was ruined. They buried grandmother and put rocks around her like parvanas father. They kept walking and found a refugee tent and Hassan got all cleaned up and they cheeked Hassan and he was dehydrated so he got looked after there and Parvana, asif and laila went to another tent right near him asif went into cheek on Hassan everyday one day they heard bombs going off and Parvana went to see what it was and she died and this lady went up and looked at laila and said who parents are these and a boy said that it was Parvana and Hassan's brother and sister and the lady looked up at Parvana and it was parvanas mum and sister and brother. And parvanna started to cry and her mum said to her that ali died