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' trilogy has been a phenomenal success, both critically and commercially. Now young readers can experience this entire epic story in one volume. The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan, where 11-year-old Parvana lives with her family in a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul. When her father is arrested for the crime of having a foreign education, the family is left with no money or resources. Forbidden to earn money as a girl, Parvana must transform herself into a boy and become the breadwinner. In Parvana's Journey, her father has died and the family has...

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...

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.

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...

Winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. She sets out alone, masquerading as a boy, her journey becoming more perilous as the bombs begin to fall. Making her way across the desolate Afghan countryside, she meets other children who are strays from the war. The...

Stephanie was the brattiest camper in Jess and Casey's cabin, but Casey couldn't really have murdered her--could she? With her best friend arrested and the town turning against her, Jess' moral dilemma might be too much for her to handle.
Known for her novels about courageous young people in developing countries, award-winning author Deborah Ellis has produced an incisive story about a different kind of courage. "Booklist" says, "This intelligent mystery is a complete 180 from the author's leprosy-in-India tale, "No Ordinary Day" (2011), but is similar in how its impact sneaks up on...

Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that continues to this day. Fifteen-year-old Farrin has grown up with secrets: ten years after the overthrow of the Shah, her aristocratic mother is still working against Iran's conservative revolutionary government. But when Farrin befriends Sadira, the intriguing and outgoing new student at her school for gifted girls, her own new secret is even more dangerous. Because the girls discover their...

In this stunning sequel to The Breadwinner Trilogy, Parvana, now 15-years-old, is found in a bombed-out school and held as a suspected terrorist by American troops in Afghanistan. The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed, and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her identity is a tattered shoulder bag containing papers that refer to people named Shauzia, Nooria, Leila, Asif, Hassan -- and Parvana. As she waits for foreign military forces to determine her fate, she remembers the past four years of her...