I’m glad to say that my youngest sister was the person who recommended this book to me, and the middle school where I did one of my teaching internships also taught this book.

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Previous book award winners Archived April 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Jane Addams Peace Association, pp. Past Winners, Older Readers Archived August 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Children's Africana Book Awards. Profile of Deborah Ellis Archived February 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, University of Manitoba.We also pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to other Aboriginal people. We would like to acknowledge and pay our respects to the Murramurang people, the traditional owners and custodians of this land. Born in Cochrane Ontario, Ellis and her family moved several times during her childhood due to her parents' work. It was all right, but compared to the first and the last book it seemed lacking and a bit unrealistic.

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We are studying the novel Parvana by Deborah Ellis for the Year 8 English Change unit of work and I also read the sequel Parvana’s Journey. Review of Mud City Archived February 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, CM Magazine, University of Manitoba. The fifth book in Ellis's Breadwinner series, One More Mountain was published by Groundwood books in 2022, takes up Parvana's story as the Americans are leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban are regaining control in Kabul. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Archived December 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine, The Literate Mother. I would definitely recommend these books to any person who enjoys reading books based on real life events.

He ends up in the coca "pits" where the coca leaves are made into coca paste, and the story follows his adventures from there. The book has received several literary awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. Review of Lunch with Lenin and Other Stories Archived October 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, CM Magazine, University of Manitoba. She was particularly struck by the story of a young girl who had cut off her hair and disguised herself as a boy so she could earn money to support her family. When Deborah Ellis read about the Taliban occupation of Afghanistan and about their brutal treatment of girls and women, she decided that she had to get involved.

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Sacred Leaf: The Cocalero Novels Archived March 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, review on papertigers.

The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family in a war-torn Taliban-era in Afghanistan.

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Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives in Kabul, Afghanistan with her mother Fatana, her father Nurullah, her bossy older sister Nooria, her cheerful younger sister Maryam and her baby brother Ali.The stories are set against backdrops as diverse as the remote north of Canada to Moscow's Red Square to an opium farm in Afghanistan. Parvana and her mother go to the local jail and beg for her father to be freed, but the guards beat them for being so outspoken. These books provided me with a greater understanding of what both women and men must go through in Afghanistan, living in fear of the Taliban. In 2006, she wrote the best-seller, I Am a Taxi, which tells the story of a Bolivian boy named Diego whose family was accused of smuggling coca paste, which is used to produce cocaine.