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Ellis, Deborah, 1960-,

One more mountain / Deborah Ellis. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2022. - 229 pages : maps ; 20 cm. - Parvana series ; [5] .

In Kabul, 15-year-old Damsa runs away to avoid being forced into marriage by her family. She is helped by Shauzia who takes her to her friend Parvana's Green Valley school. When the Taliban were defeated in 2001, Parvana and Shauzia were able to reimagine their lives. But everything changed in 2021 when the Taliban rose to power again and restricted the hard-won freedoms of women and girls. With little warning, Kabul airport is shut down and danger is everywhere. And when the Taliban come to Green Valley, Parvana and Shauzia's community faces new dangers from an old enemy as Afghanistan is once again under siege.

Adolescent.

ISBN: 9781761068133 176106813X

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Taliban--Juvenile fiction.
Taliban.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Since 2000

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women--Social conditions --Afghanistan --Fiction.
Teenage girls--Social conditions --Afghanistan --Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century--Fiction.
Afghanistan--History--2021---Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: C813.6