Deborah Ellis, Author . Fitzhenry & Whiteside $16.95 (186p) ISBN 978-1-55041-908-5
In her latest novel focused on world issues, Ellis (the Breadwinner trilogy) focuses on the plight of AIDS orphans in Mulawi. In the opening chapters, current events take precedence over character development. The author establishes how 13-year old...
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Deborah Ellis, Author . Fitzhenry & Whiteside $16.95 (201p) ISBN 978-1-55041-573-5
Ellis (Our Stories, Our Songs
) opens this uneven novel with a bleak scenario: on Mother’s Day weekend, 11-year-old Jake and his 16-year-old sister Shoshona catch a bus (driven by a frighteningly sadistic man) that takes a group of children to
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Deborah Ellis, Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-88899-973-3
Ellis (the Breadwinner Trilogy) throws readers into the harrowing experience of migrant teens escaping from different horrors in various corners of the world. Fifteen-year-old Abdul leaves war-torn Baghdad after his family is brutally murdered,...
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Deborah Ellis, Author Groundwood Books $15.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-88899-419-6
Ellis (Looking for X) bases her contemporary novel on refugee stories about the oppressive rule of Afghanistan by the Taliban. Eleven-year-old Parvana must masquerade as a boy to gain access to the outside world and support her dwindling family....
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Deborah Ellis, Author Groundwood Books $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-88899-514-8
Sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis follows the eponymous 12-year-old girl who, disguised as a boy, sets off from Kabul in search of her missing mother and siblings in Taliban-era Afghanistan. When war breaks out, she...
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Deborah Ellis, Author Groundwood Books $15.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-88899-518-6
In the third book in the Breadwinner trilogy (The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey), Mud City by Deborah Ellis, Afghani refugee 14-year-old Shauzia (Parvana's best friend) leaves the mud-walled refugee camp in Pakistan. Dressed like a boy, and ...
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Deborah Ellis, Author Douglas & McIntyre $16.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-88899-608-4
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis collects 20 heart-wrenching interviews with children, from her travels through Israel and Palestine in the winter of 2002. After opening with the names of the 429 children killed...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55498-134-2
Ellis (the Breadwinner trilogy) again brings an individual humanity to newspaper headlines. Giving voice to an orphan girl living on the streets of Calcutta unaware of her leprosy, Ellis turns a potentially unpalatable subject into a fresh and...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $15.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55498-181-6
During a 2011 visit to Kabul, Ellis (the Breadwinner trilogy) recorded the stories of 27 Afghan children, represented in this stirring collection. While some are from prosperous families, others live in desperate circumstances. One 14-year-old is in
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-55498-297-4
In this follow-up to the Breadwinner trilogy, set five years later, Ellis revisits her strong, 15-year-old heroine, now living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The novel alternates between Parvana's struggles in an American prison (she is a suspect in...
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Deborah Ellis. Pajama Press (Orca, dist.), $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-927485-57-6
“Her whole life was about living with lies,” writes Ellis (the Breadwinner series) of 15-year-old Farrin Kazemi’s situation in 1988 Tehran. At home, Farrin’s mother is secretly working to remove the Ayatollah Khomeini from power, while her father...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-55498-491-6
"The best thing about being a cat is that nothing is my fault," says 13-year-old Clare, who died in Bethlehem, Pa., and has been reincarnated as a cat in another Bethlehem—the one in the West Bank. As a human girl, Clare taunted her sister,...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-55498-120-5
In an invaluable, eye-opening narrative history, Ellis (the Breadwinner series) presents interviews with dozens of youth ages nine to 18 from among the 565 federally recognized Native tribes in the United States and 617 First Nations communities in...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-77306-086-6
The image of a seated child—a factory laborer, a boy imprisoned for reasons unknown, among others—opens each of these 11 taut stories, which span countries and cultures but are gracefully linked by themes of hope, identity, and resilience. Ellis (The
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood, $18.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-77306-121-4
In this eye-opening compilation, based on original interviews, Ellis (the Breadwinner series) allows Canadian young people who have experience with the criminal justice system to tell their own stories. In addition to a young person’s story, each...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood, $15.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-77306-815-2
Ellis explores the first steps toward maturity via children’s 11th birthdays in this empathic collection of 10 global stories, a companion to Sit. The American protagonist of “Alone” achieves autonomy by sneaking away from a class camping trip to...
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Deborah Ellis. Groundwood, $18.99 (248p) ISBN 978-1-77306-857-2
When 12-year-old Kate was nine, her single mother “dumped” her with her gran who runs “the largest junk business in the tri-county area” of Canada, where Ellis (One More Mountain) sets this absorbing, smartly paced novel. Kate’s struggles managing...
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