{"id":1762,"date":"2013-04-02T15:39:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2015-04-04T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T19:06:27","slug":"my-name-is-parvana-by-deborah-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1785\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/My-Name-Is-Parvana1.jpg\" alt=\"My Name Is Parvana\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American military personnel found Parvana in a bombed-out school building, so they brought her back to their base as a suspected terrorist.\u00a0 Because she refused to speak, the interrogations continued day after day.\u00a0 During that time, Parvana escaped into her memories \u2014 her flashbacks serving to provide readers with further information about her past.\u00a0 With the information gleaned through those flashbacks, it was easy to see why Parvana didn\u2019t feel comfortable talking to the soldiers who were interrogating her.\u00a0 Between her experiences under the oppressive Taliban regime and the further struggles her family faced in the time after the Taliban was ousted, she learned that people in power didn\u2019t always tell the truth and that speaking freely often made things worse.\u00a0 Definitely an eye-opening book about what it means to grow up female in the Afghanistan and how the American military presence has both helped and hindered Afghanistan\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American military personnel found Parvana in a bombed-out school building, so they brought her back to their base as a suspected terrorist.\u00a0 Because she refused to speak, the interrogations continued day after day.\u00a0 During that time, Parvana escaped into her memories \u2014 her flashbacks serving to provide readers with further information about her past.\u00a0 With &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Name is Parvana by Deborah Ellis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}