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Parvana: Chapter 9
  


Parvana was working in the market place, reading letters and selling things just like her father used to do before he got arrested. That's when one of the tea boys, that was running past, accidentally dropped his cups on her blanket. As she helped him pick them up, she looked at his face, and realized that it was Shauzia. Shauzia was one of her old classmates before the Taliban abolished all girls from school.   "I'll come back later" she whispered to Parvana. She did a while later and explained everything to her. She was disguised as a boy called Shafiq so she could go out to make money to support her family, as her father died of a bad heart and her brother was away in Iran. Even though these girls weren't close friends at school,they become close over the secret they both shared.     That day Parvana and Shauzia walked home together, talking all the way. Parvana's family was surprised when she walked in with Shauzia. They invited her in and treated her as if she was one of their old friends, even though they had probably never met before. Mrs Weera and Mother told them about there decision to start a secret school for girls without the Taliban knowing. Nooria was going to teach Arithmetic and History while Mrs Weera was to teach Science and Health. Mother was going to teach Reading and Writing.   <span style="display: block; font-size: 80%; color: rgb(26,88,173); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;"> There was lot's to talk about that night at dinner. Mother told them about the magazine that Mrs Weera and herself were going to write. "How are you going to get it published?", Parvana asked. "We're going to smuggle it out to Pakistan then smuggle it back in," answered Mrs Weera, 'there is a bunch of other women whose husbands are going to help us do this."

what happened to shauzias family forcing her to work as a tea boy?
why are they starting the secret school?