Parvana's Journey

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Across
  1. 2. Parvana and Asif dig for treasure but instead find ______
  2. 6. _________ the Great
  3. 12. capital city of Afghanistan
  4. 13. Parvana gives him this name after finding him
  5. 14. IDP for short, also known as refugees
  6. 15. finds him in a cave; has one leg
  7. 16. protagonist of the story
  8. 18. Parvana's soft cover novel, To Kill a _______
Down
  1. 1. the nurse works here, the Red ______ Clinic
  2. 3. she "feeds" the ground to protect herself from landmines
  3. 4. Parvana calls this place her "home" after deciding it's best to stay for awhile
  4. 5. country that the story is set in
  5. 7. full name of author of the book
  6. 8. the month of fasting for Muslims
  7. 9. the person who Parvana writes letters to
  8. 10. military and political group that in control in the mid-1990s
  9. 11. fields of purple, found in France
  10. 17. died last winter, Parvana's little brother