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.
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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 c...
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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 lou...
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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," r...
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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 ev...
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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. ...
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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 Bol...
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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 c...
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