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Deborah Ellis

Deborah Ellis is the award-winning author of the international bestseller, The Breadwinner Trilogy. She lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

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Middle East Book Award, 2002, Winner, The Breadwinner.

Hackmatack Award, 2003, Winner, The Breadwinner.

Rocky Mountain Book Award, 2003, Short-listed, The Breadwinner.

Swedish Peter Pan Prize, 2003, Winner, The Breadwinner.

Baia delle Favole Prize for ages 9-12, 2003, Winner, The Breadwinner.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2007, Winner, I Am a Taxi.

Alberta Children's Choice Award, 2008, Short-listed, I Am a Taxi.

Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2008, Short-listed, I Am a Taxi.

Governor General's Literary Awards: Text, 2001, Winner, Looking for X.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2004, Short-listed, Mud City.

Hackmatack Award, 2005, Winner, Mud City.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2003, Winner, Parvana's Journey.

Ruth Schwartz Award, 2003, Winner, Parvana's Journey.

OLA Golden Oak Award, 2004, Winner, Parvana's Journey.

Red Cedar Book Award, 2005, Winner, Parvana's Journey.

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, 2007, Long-listed, Sacred Leaf.

Rocky Mountain Book Award, 2007, Short-listed, Three Wishes.

OLA Red Maple Award, 2001, Long-listed, The Breadwinner.

OLA Golden Oak Award, 2003, Long-listed, The Breadwinner.

SYRCA Diamond Willow Award, 2003, Long-listed, The Breadwinner.

Young Jury Awards , 2004, Long-listed, The Breadwinner.

SYRCA Snow Willow Award, 2007, Long-listed, I Am a Taxi.

YALSA BBYA, 2007, Long-listed, I Am a Taxi.

OLA Golden Oak Award, 2008, Long-listed, I Am a Taxi.

OLA Silver Birch Award, 2001, Long-listed, Looking for X.

Red Cedar Book Award, 2005, Long-listed, Mud City.

Governor General's Literary Awards: Text, 2002, Long-listed, Parvana's Journey.

OLA Red Maple Award, 2004, Long-listed, Parvana's Journey.

Tiny Torgi Audio, 2004, Long-listed, Parvana's Journey.

Garden State Teen Book Awards (NJLA), 2005, Long-listed, Parvana's Journey.

OLA Silver Birch Award, 2006, Long-listed, Three Wishes.

BC Teen Reader's Choice Award Stellar Awards, 2006, Long-listed, Three Wishes.

OLA Silver Birch Nonfiction Award, 2010, Long-listed, Children of War.

USBBY Outstanding International Books, 2010, Commended, Children of War.

SSLI Honor Book, 2009, Commended, Off to War.

Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Award, 2003, Commended, The Breadwinner.

YALSA PPYA, 2003, Commended, The Breadwinner.

CCBC Our Choice, 2007, Commended, I Am a Taxi.

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, 2007, Commended, I Am a Taxi.

Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, 2007, Commended, I Am a Taxi.

SSLI Honor Book, 2007, Commended, I Am a Taxi.

White Ravens, 2007, Commended, I Am a Taxi.

PPYA (Books that Don't Make You Blush), 2006, Commended, Looking for X.

CCBC Our Choice, 2004, Commended, Mud City.

Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, 2004, Commended, Mud City.

NYPL Books for the Teenage List, 2004, Commended, Mud City.

Lamplighter Award, 2005, Commended, Mud City.

Library Media Connection (LMC) Editor's Choice Awards - Social Studies, 2008, Commended, Off to War.

Amazon.ca Top Ten, 2002, Commended, Parvana's Journey.

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award (Honor Book), 2003, Commended, Parvana's Journey.

YALSA BBYA, 2003, Commended, Parvana's Journey.

Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2004, Commended, Parvana's Journey.

Americas Award Commended List, 2008, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

National Post's Top New Books, 2007, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

Quill & Quire Books of the Year 2007 List, 2007, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

USBBY Outstanding International Books, 2008, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

CCBC Choices 2008, 2008, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, 2008, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens 2008, 2008, Commended, Sacred Leaf.

CCBC Our Choice (Starred Selection), 2005, Commended, Three Wishes.

Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice - Best of the List, 2005, Commended, Three Wishes.

Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA) YA Top Forty (or so) List, 2005, Commended, Three Wishes.

OLA Best Bets, 2010, Commended, No Safe Place.

SYRCA Snow Willow Award, 2011, Short-listed, No Safe Place.

Resource Links' Year's Best, 2010, Commended, No Safe Place.

CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2011, Commended, No Safe Place.

Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, 2011, Short-listed, No Safe Place.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2004, Commended, The Breadwinner Trilogy.

Governor General's Award: Children's Text, 2011, Short-listed, No Ordinary Day.

ALA Notable Children's Books List, 2012, Commended, No Ordinary Day.

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2012, Winner, No Ordinary Day.

CCBC Choices Best of Year, 2012, No Ordinary Day.

Ruth and Syliva Schwartz Young Adult/Middle Reader Book Award, 2012, Short-listed, No Ordinary Day.

South Asia Book Award Honor Book, 2012, Commended, No Ordinary Day.

OLA Tree Awards, 2013, Long-listed, No Ordinary Day.

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, 2012, Long-listed, No Ordinary Day.

USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2013, Commended, My Name Is Parvana.

USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2013, Commended, Kids of Kabul.

Bank Street College of Education's Book of the Month, 2013, Commended, My Name Is Parvana.

Capitol Choices Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens List, 2013, Commended, My Name Is Parvana.

IODE Violet Downey Book Award, 2013, Short-listed, My Name Is Parvana.

SYRCA Diamond Willlow Award, 2013, Short-listed, No Ordinary Day.

IRA Notable Books for a Global Society, 2013, Commended, Kids of Kabul.

CCBC Choices, 2013, Commended, My Name Is Parvana.

CCBC Choices, 2013, Commended, Kids of Kabul.

Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada Information Book Award, 2013, Long-listed, Kids of Kabul.

Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2014, Short-listed, My Name Is Parvana.

South Asia Book Award, 2013, Joint winner, Kids of Kabul.

Full Biography

Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy set in Afghanistan and Pakistan — a series that has been published in twenty-five languages, with more than one million dollars in royalties donated to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She recently received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Ontario.

Deborah lives in Simcoe, Ontario.

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Kids of Kabul

Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War

By author: Deborah Ellis

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.

Ages 12 and up



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Looking for X

By author: Deborah Ellis

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.

Ages 9 to 12



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Mud City

By author: Deborah Ellis

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

Ages 10 to 14



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