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Deborah Ellis
Deborah Ellis was raised in a small town called Paris in southern Ontario. She finished high school there, then lived for a while in Ottawa and Toronto. Deborah works as a mental health counsellor in Toronto as well as being an award-winning author. She began writing the Parvana books, about a young girl living in Afghanistan, after visiting refugee camps in Pakistan. All of the royalties from the sale of the books will be donated to Women for Women in Afghanistan to support educational projects for Afghan girls in refugee camps in Pakistan.
| By Deborah Ellis And Eric Walters - $12.95 - add to cart | |
Two bestselling authors join forces to write a powerful novel about racism. Haroon is a serious student devoted to his family; Jay is a rising football star devoted to his team. The boys barel...
| By Deborah Ellis - $9.95 - add to cart | |
2002 M.Y.R.C.A. Winner2003 Rocky Mountain Book Award WinnerImagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes tha...
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Henri has no friends among the choirboys at St Luc's. Quiet and sickly, he has always lived behind abbey walls. Then Micah arrives. An urchin from the streets of nearby Paris, he is loud, dirty a...
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Diego, 12, lives in prison in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, stuck there with his parents, who have been falsely arrested for smuggling drugs. He attends school and works as a "taxi," running err...
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Jake and his sister Shoshona have been under foster care since their single mother was arrested for possession and trafficking three years before. Both have found their own ways to cope: Shoshona h...
| By Deborah Ellis - $7.95 - add to cart | |
Winner of the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award A desperate search for her friend "X" takes Khyber on a long, all-night odyssey that proves to be wilder than any adventure she has ever imagine...
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The 3rd book in the Breadwinner trilogy finds Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, fleeing Afghanistan and surviving on her own on the streets of Peshawar, Pakistan. With her dog as her only friend, sh...
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It’s September 1901, and ten-year-old Keeley and her father are making a fresh start, after the death of Keeley’s mother, in a brand new town called Frank that sits in a valley at the bottom of Tur...
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2003 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award Young Adult WinnerParvana's Journey is the second book in Deborah Ellis's powerful trilogy about a young girl's life in contemporary Afghanistan. The first...
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Far away from his own family, twelve-year-old Diego is taken in by the Ricardos - coca farmers (cocaleros) struggling to earn a livelihood by growing a plant that the native people of Bolivia have ...
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The war in the Middle East has been going on for so long, and in so many forms, that it often seems as if it will continue forever. But war, like almost everything else humans do, is a choice. Th...
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