Deborah Ellis
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories.
Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court
...2) Step
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
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...
3) I am a taxi
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Living with his family in a prison in Bolivia due to his parents' convictions for drug trafficking, twelve-year-old Diego does his best to live a normal life, but when his mother receives additional fines, Diego risks everything to earn quick money.
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 1
Publisher
Groundwood Book
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The first book in Deborah Elliss riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Talibans rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistans capital city. Parvanas father a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed works from a blanket on...
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 in a country torn by war, violence, and oppression.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Provides interviews with twenty-three young Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Provides interviews with forty-five young indigenous children between the ages of nine and eighteen, who speak of their fears, challenges, and struggles to maintain their cultural heritage.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
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.
9) Mud city
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 3
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
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
Series
Breadwinner series volume 2
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Imagine living in a country where women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out. This is the life of Parvana, a young girl growing up in Afghanistan under the control of an extreme religious military group. When soldiers burst into her home and drag her father off to prison, Parvana is forced to take responsibility for her...
Author
Series
Breadwinner series volume 4
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Found wandering alone in a bombed-out Afghan school, 15-year-old Parvana mystifies American military forces by remaining silent, while spending her time remembering the past four years of her life, having been reunited with her mother and sisters and living in a village where her mother's finally managed to open a school for girls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Español
Description
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest.
Parvana, whose father was arrested by the Taliban--the religious faction controlling Afghanistan--and whose family lives in one room of a bombed-out apartment building, must disguise herself as a boy to support her family.
13) No ordinary day
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Valli has always been afraid of the lepers living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when a chance encounter with a doctor reveals she also has leprosy, Valli rejects help and begins an uncertain life on the streets.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company, Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A Canadian long-distance swimmer recounts how she prepared for and swam across Lake Ontario as a fourteen-year-old to raise money for a camp for children with cancer.