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Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living?Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thou...

The final book in the internationally - bestselling trilogy that includes The Breadwinner and Parvana's Journey. Parvana's best friend, fourteen - year - old Shauzia, has escaped the misery of her life in Kabul, only to end up in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. She is determined to earn money to buy her passage out of the country. An incident with a dishonest man lands her ...

Over two million copies of The Breadwinner Trilogy sold worldwide Eleven - year - old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed - out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father - a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed - works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for the crime of hav...

Winner of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award A war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust the Taliban by bombing the country. Parvana's father has died, and her mother, sister and brother have gone to a faraway wedding, not knowing what has happened to the father. Parvana doesn't know where they are. She just knows she has to find them. She sets out alone, masquerading as a boy, her journey becoming more per...

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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 gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you're just bad forever") but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with pet...

Bu bir kedi hikayesi.Bu bir genc kiz hikayesi.Ama her seyden önemlisi bu bir baris ve uzlasma hikayesi.Clare dün okula giden ve mizildanan bir kizken, ertesi gün bir kediye dönüsüyor veaskerlerin, ailelerin, ögretmenlerin hic bilmedigi dünyasina daliyor.Sadece insanlar mi... Hayir, kedilerle savasiyor, kosuyor, kaciyor, zipliyor vekokularin ardina düsüyor.Duvardaki Kedi, sira disi bir kurguylafarkli bir bakis acisina ulasmanin eglenceli bir yo...

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Tratta dal film di animazione di Nora Twomey e ispirata al romanzo di Deborah Ellis, una graphic novel intensa ed emozionante sulla ribelle Parvana. È afghana, ha undici anni e, come tutte le donne sotto il regime talebano, non è libera di girare da sola. Finché, dopo l'arresto del papà, decide di vestirsi da uomo e uscire di casa per provvedere alla sua famiglia. Un racconto duro, di una vita immaginata ma basata sulla reale condizione di mol...

In 2011, Deborah Ellis traveled to Kabul in to meet with kids and find out what their lives are like. Available in paperback for the first time!

For two years, author and activist Deborah Ellis traveled across the United States and Canada, interviewing more than forty Indigenous kids and letting them tell their own stories. Now available in paperback.

Excerpt from An Introduction to the History of Sugar as a Commodity: A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of Bryn Mawr, College for the Degree of Doctor of PhilosophyThe people of the Spanish Peninsula were at once the last to receive the cane at the hands of the Mohammedans, and the first to start it on its further migration across the Atlantic Ocean. In the early fifteenth century the islands nearer the Old World were planted with the sug...

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