They take her to their home in a residential part of Peshawar, and for a time she has a taste of a life where children have food to eat and warm beds and toys to play with, and she feels safe for the first time. An incident with a dishonest man lands her in jail, where she spends the night, terrified and despairing, before well-meaning Americans she met when she was begging rescue her. She is determined to earn money to buy her passage out of the country. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. Parvana's best friend, fourteen-year-old Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. The third book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and My Name Is Parvana
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