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

The Outsmarters

No Safe Place

No Safe Place

One More Mountain

Step

Step

Step

I Am a Taxi

I Am a Taxi

The Greats

Sit

Sit

My Story Starts Here

Moon at Nine

The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel

Sit

The Cocalero Novels Bundle

El pan de la guerra

The Cat at the Wall

Looks Like Daylight

My Name Is Parvana

Kids of Kabul

True Blue

No Ordinary Day

No Safe Place

The Breadwinner Trilogy

Children of War

Off to War

Bifocal

Sacred Leaf

I Am a Taxi

Three Wishes

Mud City

The Breadwinner

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