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    Parvana

    Deborah Ellis

    Based on real-life events, Parvana is the compelling story of a young girl in Afghanistan who is determined to provide for herself and her family. This bestselling novel is recommended…

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    One More Mountain: A Parvana Story

    Deborah Ellis

    From the master storyteller of the bestselling Parvana books comes a timely new novel set in contemporary Afghanistan, featuring Parvana and Shauzia continuing their mission to protect women and girls…

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    The Heaven Shop

    Deborah Ellis

    Compelling and uplifting, The Heaven Shop is a contemporary novel for young people that puts a very real face on the African AIDS pandemic. Binti is a complex character who…

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    The Outsmarters

    Deborah Ellis

    What can you do when the adult world lets you down?

    Suspended from school and prone to rages, twelve-year-old Kate finds her own way to get on with her life…

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    Shauzia

    Deborah Ellis

    This powerful companion to Parvana and Parvana’s Journey, by award winning Canadian author, Deborah Ellis, tells the gripping story of a young girl’s fight to make a life for herself…

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    Parvana’s Journey

    Deborah Ellis

    After her father’s death, Parvana, now thirteen-years-old, continues to search for her mother in war-torn Afghanistan, joining with two younger children who are also struggling to survive.

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    The Cat at the Wall

    Deborah Ellis

    If you were given a second chance at life, would you have the courage to do the right thing? A captivating novel set on the West Bank, The Cat at…

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    Women of the Afghan War

    Deborah Ellis

    Gives an account of the Afghan War and its aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims.

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    I Am a Taxi

    Deborah Ellis

    Winner of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award

    For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian…

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    Sacred Leaf

    Deborah Ellis

    USBBY Oustanding International Books selection

    After he finally manages to escape from being a virtual slave in an illegal cocaine operation, Diego is taken in by the Ricardo family –…

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    My Name Is Parvana

    Deborah Ellis

    Fifteen-year-old Parvana has rebuilt her life after being reunited with her mother and sisters. But suspicion and fear towards the education of women have put them all in danger. When…

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    The Breadwinner

    Deborah Ellis

    A compelling and engrossing story about a girl living in war-torn Afghanistan under Taliban rule. Parvana must disguise herself as a boy to save her mother and sisters from starvation…

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    The Cat at the Wall

    Deborah Ellis

    If you were given a second chance at life, would you have the courage to do the right thing? A captivating novel set on the West Bank, The Cat at…

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    Moon at Nine

    Deborah Ellis

    In 1988 Tehran, teenaged girls Farrin and Sadira are sentenced to death for homosexuality. Farrin prays that her wealthy family will be able to save them before it is too…

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    Step

    Deborah Ellis

    Does turning eleven mean that you can have new thoughts, try new things? Or will you be the same person you were when you were ten?

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    Three Wishes

    Deborah Ellis

    Palesinian and Israeli children talk about their lives, hopes and dreams.

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    One More Mountain

    Deborah Ellis

    It’s 2021, and the Taliban have retaken power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.

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    Off to War: Voices of Soldiers’ Children

    Deborah Ellis

    Society of School Librarians International Honor Book

    Deborah Ellis has been widely praised for her gripping books portraying the plight of children in war-torn countries. Now she turns her attention…

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    Moon at Nine

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    In 1988 Tehran, teenaged girls Farrin and Sadira are sentenced to death for homosexuality. Farrin prays that her wealthy family will be able to save them before it is too…

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    True Blue

    Deborah Ellis

    The darker side of a friendship is portrayed by Jess, a seventeen-year-old who struggles to find the moral courage to remain loyal to her best friend Casey who has been…

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    Mud City

    Deborah Ellis

    Shauzia is Parvana’s friend from The Breadwinner. Now Shauzia has fled from Afghanistan, to a refugee camp in Pakistan. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp and travelling…

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    Parvana’s Journey

    Deborah Ellis

    Presents a sequel by the award-winning author. This book tells the story of Parvana, traveling alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her family. Deborah Ellis is…

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    My Story Starts Here: Voices of Young Offenders

    Deborah Ellis

    Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories.

    Jamar found refuge in a…

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    The Heaven Shop

    Deborah Ellis

    There is a lion in our village, and it is carrying away our children.Binti was the child star of a popular radio program in Malawi. She always believed she was…

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    Off to War

    Deborah Ellis

    Deborah Ellis has been widely praised for her books about children in war-torn countries. Now, she turns her attention closer to home, to American and Canadian children whose parents are…

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    Sit

    Deborah Ellis

    With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and their situations, decisions and actions, with profound impacts.

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    Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely through a Never-ending War

    Deborah Ellis

    In 2011, Deborah Ellis traveled to Kabul in to meet with kids and find out what their lives are like. Available in paperback for the first time!

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    Step

    Deborah Ellis

    Does turning eleven mean that you can have new thoughts, try new things? Or will you be the same person you were when you were ten?

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    A Company of Fools

    Deborah Ellis

    Henri is used to the quiet routines of the abbey. Micah is a wild trouble maker with the voice of an angel. Micah stirs up fun and adventure at a…

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    Ben Over Night

    Deborah Ellis

    Ben likes nothing more than to go over to Peter’s house. When the two friends play together, Ben can be anything he wants: a pirate, a musician, a cook. But…

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    Our Stories, Our Songs

    Deborah Ellis

    Children in Sub-Saharan Africa tell how AIDS has affected their lives.

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    No Safe Place

    Deborah Ellis

    Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen - year - old Abdul has made a…

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    Looking for X

    Deborah Ellis

    Award-winning junior novel from the author of Parvana and Parvana’s Journey, about a young city girl’s determination to be herself and keep her family together, against the odds.

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    Diego’s Pride

    Deborah Ellis

    Further true-to-life adventures for Diego, a gutsy young Bolivian boy caught between fighting for justice and returning home to his family. A brave, revealing novel from the author of the…

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    No Safe Place

    Deborah Ellis

    A heart-stopping adventure novel based on true-life experiences. From the bestselling author of the Parvana series.

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    The Best Day of My Life

    Deborah Ellis

    An absorbing, emotionally engrossing story about a young Indian girl who has to survive by herself on the streets of Kolkata.

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    The Greats

    Deborah Ellis

    Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon’s life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same…

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    The Heaven Shop

    Deborah Ellis

    Binti’s father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. When the family is split up and sent to live with various…

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    Diego! Run

    Deborah Ellis

    A true-to-life adventure story about Diego, a gutsy young Bolivian boy, who needs all his ingenuity and courage to stay alive and help his family. Another brave, revealing novel from…

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    Parvana’s Journey

    Deborah Ellis

    A sequel to the international young adult bestseller, Parvana, this is the gripping story of a young girl’s journey in search of her family, somewhere in war-ravaged Afghanistan, and of…

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    The Prison Runner

    Deborah Ellis

    Diego had never been in the jungle before. He’d lived with his family high in the hills, and then he was a prison kid, a city kid. A simple error…

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    The Breadwinner

    Deborah Ellis

    For use in schools and libraries only. Pravana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban–the radical religious faction controlling Afghanistan–and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment…

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    The Breadwinner (16pt Large Print Edition)

    Deborah Ellis

    Over two million copies of The Breadwinner Trilogy sold worldwide Eleven - year - old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed - out apartment building…

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    My Name is Parvana

    Deborah Ellis

    Fifteen-year-old Parvana has rebuilt her life after being reunited with her mother and sisters. But suspicion and fear towards the education of women have put them all in danger. When…

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    Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees

    Deborah Ellis

    Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as…

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    The Breadwinner Trilogy

    Deborah Ellis

    In this trilogy, a family comes up with a unique solution to the problem of losing their breadwinner, families survive in war-torn Afghanistan, and a young girl survives alone with…

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    My Name Is Parvana

    Deborah Ellis

    Found wandering alone in a bombed-out Afghan school, 15-year-old Parvana mystifies American military forces by remaining silent, while spending her time remembering the past four years of her life, having…

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    The Breadwinner

    Deborah Ellis

    Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women’s freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after…

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