Bøker av Deborah Ellis

It's 2021 and Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy. These days, Parvana runs a school for girls, but when the Taliban regains power everything changes in an instant and Parvana and Shauzia must lead the girls to safety.

A remarkable and thought-provoking new novel set on Israel¿s West Bank, by the author of The Breadwinner.On Israel¿s West Bank, a cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers. The house seems empty, until the cat realizes that a little boy is hiding beneath the floorboards.Should she help him?After all, she¿s just a cat.Or is she?It turns out that this particular cat is not used to thinking about anyone but herself. She was once a regular North American girl who only had to deal with normal middle-school problems ¿ staying under the teachers¿ radar, bullying her sister and the uncool kids at school, outsmarting her clueless parents.But that was before she died and came back to life as a cat, in a place with a whole different set of rules for survival.When the little boy is discovered, the soldiers don¿t know what to do with him. Where are the child¿s parents? Why has he been left alone in the house? It is not long before his teacher and classmates come looking for him, and the house is suddenly surrounded by Palestinian villagers throwing rocks, and the sound of Israeli tanks approaching.Not my business, thinks the cat. And then she sees a photograph, and suddenly she understands what happened to the boy¿s parents, and why they have not returned. And as the soldiers begin to panic, and disaster seems certain, she knows that it is up to her to diffuse the situation.But what can a cat do? What can any one creature do?Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).

With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and their situations, decisions and actions, with profound impacts.

CLOSE DOWN YOUR SCHOOL... OR YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE. CLOSE DOWN YOUR SCHOOL OR WE WILL KILL YOU. LOCKED AWAY BY AMERICAN MILITARY SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN, PARVANA REFUSES TO TALK TO HER CAPTORS. HER SILENCE ONLY BAFFLES AND ANGERS THOSE IN CHARGE, LEADING THEM TO QUESTION THE INNOCENCE OF THIS YOUNG SILENT REBEL, SNATCHED FROM THE RUINS OF A BOMBED-OUT SCHOOL. THEIR ONLY CLUE IS HER DIARY AND A SERIES OF NAMES IN IT THAT THEY HOPE WILL HELP THEM FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED. THROUGH PARVANA'S STORY, YOU WILL SEE HOW LIVES ARE SHATTERED AND SCATTERED LIKE SHRAPNEL IN A COUNTRY DEVASTATED BY WAR. YOU WILL ENCOUNTER PEOPLE WAGING THEIR OWN CRUSHING BATTLES: A SINGLE MOTHER STRIVING AGAINST VICIOUS TRADITION TO RUN A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS; YOUNG GIRLS GROWING UP WITH GRIM REALITIES AND DREAMS OF FREE SKIES; AND STUDENTS STRUGGLING TO GET AN EDUCATION THAT WILL GIVE THEM WINGS. MOST OF ALL, YOU WILL MEET, AND NEVER FORGET, A FEISTY GIRL WHO BELIEVES THAT EVEN IN THE DARKEST HOURS OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, HOPE SHINES FORTH LIKE THE DESERT SUN. अफगाणिस्तानात वर्षानुवर्षं चाललेल्या युद्धामुळे तिथलं राजकीय, आर्थिक, सामाजिक जीवन ढवळून निघालं आहे. तिथल्या नागरिकांना दैनंदिन जीवनासाठी लढाई लढावी लागते आहे. तालिबानने अफगाणिस्तानवर केलेल्या हल्ल्यानंतर तेथील स्त्रियांवर खूप बंधनं लादण्यात आली. मुलींच्या शाळेत जाण्यावर बंदी आली. मुलींच्या शाळाच बंद पाडल्या गेल्या. स्त्रियांना नोकरी करण्यास मज्जाव करण्यात आला आणि कपड्यांवर, सार्वजनिक वावरावर जुनाट बंधनं लादली गेली. नंतर अमेरिकेने अफगाणिस्तानवर हल्ला करून तालिबानी सत्ता संपुष्ट

THE PEOPLE OF BOLIVIA HAVE GROWN COCA FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, BUT THE DEMANDS OF AMERICA S WAR ON DRUGS NOW THREATEN THIS WAY OF LIFE. DEBORAH ELLIS S SEARING FOLLOW-UP TO THE HIGHLY PRAISED I AM A TAXI DEALS WITH THIS FRANK REALITY. AFTER HE MANAGES TO ESCAPE FROM VIRTUAL ENSLAVEMENT IN AN ILLEGAL COCAINE OPERATION, DIEGO IS TAKEN IN BY THE RICARDO FAMILY. THESE POOR COCA FARMERS GIVE DIEGO A SAFE HAVEN WHERE HE RECOVERS FROM HIS ORDEAL IN THE JUNGLE. BUT THE ARMY SOON MOVES IN AND DESTROYS THE FAMILY S COCA CROP -- THEIR LIVELIHOOD. SO DIEGO JOINS THE COCALEROS AS THEY PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR CROPS AND CONFRONT THE ARMY HEAD-ON BY BARRICADING THE ROADS. WHILE TENSION BETWEEN THE COCALEROS AND THE ARMY BUILDS TO A DRAMATIC CLIMAX, DIEGO WONDERS WHETHER HE WILL EVER FIND A WAY TO RETURN TO HIS FAMILY. THIS COMPELLING NOVEL DEFIES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON AN IMPORTANT ISSUE, AND SHOWS HOW PEOPLE IN ONE PART OF THE WORLD UNKNOWINGLY CREATE HARDSHIP FOR PEOPLE IN ANOTHER. अचानक पडलेल्या प्रकाशाने दिएगोच्या डोळ्यासमोर एकदम अंधारच पसरला. समोरच काही दिसत नव्हत. फक्त मोठंमोठे दिवे भगभगीत उजेड ओकत होते. त्या प्रकाशात कुठल्यातरी सावल्या हलताना दिसत होत्या. त्या सावल्यावरून त्यांन अंदाज बांधला - रणगाडे पोहोचलेत. तेवढयात हेलीकॉप्टरचा कर्कश आवाज कानी पडू लागला. घिरटया घालणार हेलिकॉप्टर आंदोलकांच्या हालचाली टिपत होत. दिएगोला कळून चुकल; संपल सारं! ते आलेत, आर्मीने घेरलय. काय होईल, कळायला काहि मार्गच नव्हता.

FOR TWELVE-YEAR-OLD DIEGO AND HIS FAMILY, HOME IS THE SAN SEBASTIAN WOMEN S PRISON IN COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA. HIS PARENTS FARMED COCA, A TRADITIONAL BOLIVIAN MEDICINAL PLANT, UNTIL THEY GOT CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GOVERNMENT S WAR ON DRUGS. DIEGO S ADJUSTED TO HIS NEW LIFE. HIS PARENTS ARE LOCKED UP, BUT HE CAN COME AND GO: TO SCHOOL, TO THE MARKET TO SELL HIS MOTHER S HAND-KNITTED GOODS, AND TO WORK AS A "TAXI," RUNNING ERRANDS FOR OTHER PRISONERS. BUT THEN HIS LITTLE SISTER RUNS AWAY, EARNING HIS MOTHER A HEAVY FINE. THE DEBT AND DAWNING REALIZATION OF HIS HOPELESS SITUATION MAKE HIM VULNERABLE TO HIS FRIEND MANDO S PLAN TO MAKE BIG MONEY, FAST. SOON, DIEGO IS DEEP IN THE JUNGLE, WORKING AS A VIRTUAL SLAVE IN AN ILLEGAL COCAINE OPERATION. AS HIS SITUATION BECOMES MORE AND MORE DANGEROUS, HE KNOWS HE MUST TAKE A TERRIBLE RISK IF HE EVER WANTS TO SEE HIS FAMILY AGAIN. काळीकुट्ट रात्रं.... मिट्ट काळोख आणि घनदाट जंगल; पायाखालची अनोळखी वाट तुडवत दिएगो चालत होता. तो कुठं जातोय, काय करणार याची त्याला काही कल्पना नव्हती. जंगलातून माकडांच्या भयाण किंकाळ्या कानावर पडत होत्या, बेडकांचे कर्कश्य डराँवऽ डराँवऽ ऐकून पोटात कालवत होतं. हे असं भयाण जंगल त्यानं आजवर कधी पाहिलंही नव्हतं. पहाडी भागातला हा मुलगा, द-याखो-यात त्याचं लहानसं कुटुंब राहायचं. पण काळानं असा काही घात केला की, सारं कुटुंबच तुरुंगाच्या चार भिंतीआड रवाना झालं. दिएगोही तुरंगातच राहायचा, शहरातल्या तुरुंगात. शहरभर पायाला चाकं लावून फिरायच

This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught in it and became its innocent victims. The voices in this oral history provide personal snapshots to the news reports of the Taliban activities emerging from Afghanistan.

'Diego had never been in the jungle before. He'd lived with his family high in the hills, and then he was a prison kid, a city kid. His nights were bare light bulbs burning, women and children crying, guards yelling and keys clanging. He hated it, but it was what he was used to . . .'A simple error of judgement hurls Diego into a nightmare. He's been living in prison with his mother and sister, looking after them and earning money whenever he can. Until the day he accidentally breaks the rules. Suddenly the family are in trouble, and Diego needs money to save them. So when one of his friends tells Diego that he knows a job that will make them both rich, Diego gives into temptation. But the job is far different from the one he'd imagined, and Diego soon finds himself in the heart of the Bolivian jungle and the clutches of men who produce drugs for a living . . .

Binti's father is dying from AIDS, a disease that nobody in their town in Malawi dares name aloud. When the family is split up and sent to live with various scared and cruel relatives, Binti knows that it is up to her to reunite them. But her fight to do so means coming to an understanding of herself, and also of human nature.