Deborah Ellis
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
3) Mud city
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 3
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Parvana's best friend, Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. But she still dreams of seeing the ocean and eventually making a new life in France. This is the dream that has sustained her through the terrible years in Kabul. It is the dream for which she has forsaken family and friends. But it is hard to imagine herself in a field of purple lavender when she is living in the Widows Compound...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Deborah Ellis's bestselling novel The Breadwinner, now available as a stunningly illustrated graphic novel.
This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan in the late 1990s.
Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building
...Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 4
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In post-Taliban Afghanistan, Parvana is held on a U.S. military base and interrogated as a possible terrorist, reflecting on the previous four years of her life she spent with her mother and sisters while she waits to learn her fate.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Collects personal accounts from teenagers representing diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, describing the factors that shaped their lives and how they found themselves in legal trouble and the steps they are currently taking to rehabilitate.
7) The greats
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 night -- so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a candy store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living? "--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For two years, Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada interviewing Native children. The result is a compelling collection of interviews with children aged nine to eighteen. They come from all over the continent, from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaai to North Carolina, and their stories run the gamut; some heartbreaking; many others full of pride and hope.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When normal American middle-school student Clare dies and comes back as a cat in the middle of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, she wonders if she should even try to do what she can to help since, after all, she is just a cat.
10) Step: stories
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful collection of short stories, children around the world turn eleven and take a step into their futures. Each one is changed in ways both big and small. Annoyed at having to walk his sister's dog on his birthday, Connor heads into an undeveloped subdivision, where he comes across chilling evidence of a stranger's unhappiness. A girl sneaks away from her class camping trip to a local conservation area and experiences, for the first...
11) Sit
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice."--
12) I am a taxi
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood/Anais Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government's war on drugs and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go, to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor ListIn this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some families have left Iraq with money; others are penniless and ill or disabled. Most of the children have parents who are working illegally or not at all, and the...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Explores the plight of Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, featuring the stories of twenty-six children, aged ten to seventeen, and their struggles to continue educating themselves and improving their own lives despite living ina country torn by war, violence, and oppression.
15) In from the cold
Author
Series
Publisher
Grass Roots Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A homeless mother and her teenage daughter live on the streets of a big city. Their lives are hard. They look for food in garbage dumpsters, bathe in donut shop washrooms, and hide from the police. The daughter is getting angry - she doesn't want this awful new life. She wants her other life back, the life with her friends and school. The mother keeps trying to do the right thing, but everything is going so wrong.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this trilogy of short novels, reader will find a family who comes up with a unique solution to the problem of losing their breadwinner, how families are surviving in war-torn Afghanistan, and how a young girl survives alone with only a dog in the streets of Pakistan.
18) No ordinary day
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
20) The breadwinner
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...