This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims. The voices in this oral history will provide personal snapshots to the news reports of the Taliban activities now coming out of Afghanistan. These accounts provide an historical background to the growth of the Taliban, and reveal circumstances of the daily life of the women who must survive in this very closed society.
Through the medium of oral history, this book brings to light the stories of the women who have suffered the consequences of the...
This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught up in it and became its innocent victims. The vo...
Smart and independent, 11-year-old Khyber lives with her mom, Tammy, a former stripper, and her autistic twin brothers in a poor Toronto neighborhood. Though she doesn t have a lot in common with her classmates, Khyber does have wonderfully eccentric friends: Valerie, Toronto s meanest waitress, and X, a homeless woman in hiding from the secret police. Despite having to deal with pompous social workers who make her mother cry and ignorant kids who make remarks about her brothers, Khyber manages to enjoy herself, poring over atlases, planning exotic journeys, and taking peanut butter...
Smart and independent, 11-year-old Khyber lives with her mom, Tammy, a former stripper, and her autistic twin brothers in a poor Toronto neighborhood....
Deborah Ellis's enormously popular Breadwinner trilogy recounted the experiences of children living in Afghanistan; now Ellis turns her attention to the young people of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After visiting the region to conduct interviews, she presents their stories here -- in their own words. Twelve-year-old Nora, eleven-year-old Mohammad, and many others speak directly about their lives -- which prove to be both ordinary and extraordinary: They argue with their siblings. They hate spinach. They have wishes for the future. Yet they have also seen their homes destroyed and...
Deborah Ellis's enormously popular Breadwinner trilogy recounted the experiences of children living in Afghanistan; now Ellis turns her attenti...
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour Book
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour Book
Mr. Christie Silver Book Award
Ruth Schwartz Award, finalist
Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, nominee
Rocky Mountain Book Award, nominee
Before Micah came to St. Luc's, he knew how to beg, how to steal, and how to run from a beating. He did not know how to comb his hair, walk in line when he felt like running, or obey anyone's whim but his own. He was a stranger in a strange land. If it had been me, I would have found a...
Canadian Library Association Book of the Year, Honour Book
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction, Honour Book
There is a lion in our village, and it is carrying away our children.
At her father's funeral, Binti's grandmother utters the words that no one in Malawi wants to hear. Binti's father and her mother before him, dies of AIDS. Binti, her sister, and brother are separated and sent to the home of relatives who can barely tolerate their presence. Ostracized by their extended family, the orphans are treated like the lowest servants. With her brother far away and her sister wallowing in her own sorrow, Binti can hardly contain her rage. She, Binti Phirim, was once a child star of a...
There is a lion in our village, and it is carrying away our children.
At her father's funeral, Binti's grandmother utters the words ...
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq seven years ago. Today the country is still at war, and no one can claim that true democracy has come. Four million Iraqis have been displaced, and about half of them, unable to flee the country, are now living in remote tent camps without access to schools, health care, or often even food and clean water. In Children of War, a companion title to Off to War: Voices of Soldiers Children, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war Iraqi children. She interviews two dozen young people, mostly refugees...
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq seven years ago. Today the country is still at war, and no one can claim that true democracy has come. F...
Nur als Junge verkleidet kann Parvana die Herrschaft der Taliban berleben!Als ihr Vater verhaftet wird, nimmt die elfjhrige Parvana seinen Platz auf dem Markt in Kabul ein. Hier hatte er den vielen Analphabeten ihre Post vorgelesen. Wegen der restriktiven Gesetze der Taliban kann sie sich jedoch nur als Junge verkleidet in der ffentlichkeit zeigen. Und begibt sich so in groe Gefahr.
Nur als Junge verkleidet kann Parvana die Herrschaft der Taliban berleben!Als ihr Vater verhaftet wird, nimmt die elfjhrige Parvana seinen Platz auf d...
Jetzt endlich als Sammelband: Die Afghanistan-Romane der Erfolgsautorin Deborah Ellis!Parvana und ihre Freundin Shauzia erleben die Willkrherrschaft der Taliban, dann den Krieg gegen die Amerikaner. Familien mssen fliehen, werden auseinandergerissen, Kinder versuchen - vllig auf sich gestellt - irgendwie zu berleben. Jedes der beiden Mdchen muss seinen Weg allein gehen: Parvana schlgt sich in den Norden Afghanistans durch, weil sie hofft, dort ihre Mutter und ihre Geschwister wiederzufinden.Shauzia flieht nach Pakistan, um der geplanten Zwangsheirat zu entkommen.Trotz aller Rckschlge...
Jetzt endlich als Sammelband: Die Afghanistan-Romane der Erfolgsautorin Deborah Ellis!Parvana und ihre Freundin Shauzia erleben die Willkrherrschaft d...
Based on impeccable research in an Afghan refugee camp, this novel is an honest, heart-breaking and positive story of enormous courage and creative survival in an intolerable environment.
Based on impeccable research in an Afghan refugee camp, this novel is an honest, heart-breaking and positive story of enormous courage and creative su...
Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, 15-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle a squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais, France. He takes a spot in a small, overloaded boat heading to England and full of other illegal migrants and a secret stash of heroin. A sudden skirmish leaves the boat stalled in the middle of the Channel, the pilot dead, and four young people remaining Abdul, Rosalia, a Romani girl who has escaped from the white slave trade, Cheslav, gone AWOL from a Russian...
Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, 15-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad,...
