These frank and harrowing true stories of young Iraqi refugees show surprising resilience, as the children try to survive the consequences of a war in which they played no part.

Taking inspiration from beloved children's books, and from lives of the authors who wrote them, Sarah Ellis provides suggestions that will help parents, workshop leaders and teachers awaken the imagination of children and start them writing.

Deep in the jungle, working as a virtual slave in a cocaine operation, twelve-year-old Diego realizes he must take a terrible risk if he ever wants to see his family again.

Eleven years after the publication of her international best-selling novel, The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis travels to Kabul to meet with kids and find out what their lives are like now.

A smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious homeless woman who has gone missing.

Shauzia, Parvana's best friend, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan.

Desperate to fit in at her new school, Peggy Davies tells her classmates that she owned a horse in the country -- a lie that makes her family's move to the city even more of a nightmare than she had imagined.

In this wonderful middle-grade novel, Deborah Ellis brings us a feisty young heroine, Valli -- an orphan who lives on the streets of Kolkata, unaware that she has leprosy.

A timely and gripping novel about four young migrants who seek safe haven in England and end up adrift in the English Channel.

When Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, he discovers a very puzzling binder his late father kept.