Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books for children, including The Breadwinner Trilogy; The Heaven Shop; Lunch With Lenin; Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees; and Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS. She has won many national and international awards for her books, including the Governor General’s Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award, Sweden’s Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and the Children’s Africana Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers.Deborah knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of 11 or 12. Growing up in Paris, Ontario, she loved reading about big cities like New York. In high school, Deborah joined the Peace Movement, playing anti-Nuclear War movies at her school. Since then Deborah has become a peace activist, humanitarian and philanthropist, donating almost all of the royalties from her books to communities in need in Asia and Africa. Heavily involved with Women for Women in Afghanistan, Deborah has helped build women’s centers and schools, giving children education and finding work for women.In 2006, Deborah was named to the Order of Ontario. She now lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

Books by Deborah Ellis

One More Mountain

Step

The Greats

My Story Starts Here

Parvana : Une enfance en Afghanistan

The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

Sit

The Breadwinner (movie tie-in edition)

The Breadwinner Series Bundle

The Cocalero Novels Bundle

Moon at Nine

El pan de la guerra

Parvana’s Journey

The Cat at the Wall

Annaleise Carr

Run

Looks Like Daylight

True Blue

True Blue

No Ordinary Day

We Want You To Know

The Breadwinner Trilogy

Lunch with Lenin and other stories

A Company of Fools

The Heaven Shop

Bifocal

Sacred Leaf

Jakeman

I Am a Taxi

Our Stories, Our Songs

Mud City

Parvana's Journey

The Breadwinner

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