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Books like The Breadwinner

Explore 24 books like The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis — a handpicked selection united by Violence, Social Issues, Girls & Women, and Asia.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Breadwinner.

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Themes: Violence • Social Issues • Girls & Women

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Themes: Social Issues • Girls & Women • Asia

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • Asia

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Themes: Violence • Social Issues • People & Places

Broken Memory A Novel of Rwanda

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Themes: Violence • Social Issues • People & Places

Mud City

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Themes: Girls & Women • Asia • People & Places

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

Every Time a Rainbow Dies

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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The Black Coats

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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A Sitting in St. James

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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Finding Papa

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Themes: Violence • Asia • People & Places

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Bamboo People A Novel

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Themes: Violence • Asia • People & Places

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The Everything I Have Lost

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Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

#18

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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The Girl in the Locked Room A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn

Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

#20

Punky Aloha

Shar Tuiasoa

Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

#21

A Day for Vincent Chin and Me

Jacqueline Turner Banks

Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

#22

The Kite Fighters

Linda Sue Park

Themes: Violence • Asia • People & Places

#23

Saving Savannah

Tonya Bolden

Themes: Violence • Girls & Women • People & Places

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One Hug

Katrina Moore

Themes: Violence • Asia • People & Places

If The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Violence, Social Issues, Girls & Women and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Eleanor Estes, Patricia McCormick, Rebecca Langston-George, Walter Dean Myers, and others.