Deborah Ellis
21) Sit
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English
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"The seated child. With a single powerful image, Deborah Ellis draws our attention to nine children and the situations they find themselves in, often through no fault of their own. In each story, a child makes a decision and takes action, be that a tiny gesture or a life-altering choice."--
22) I am a taxi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is a 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 and were mistakenly convicted of drug possession. Diego's parents are locked up, but he can come and go, to school, to the market to sell his mother's handknitted goods, and to work as a "taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor ListIn this book, Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war -- Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some families have left Iraq with money; others are penniless and ill or disabled. Most of the children have parents who are working illegally or not at all, and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Explores the plight of Afghanistan's children since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, featuring the stories of twenty-six children, aged ten to seventeen, and their struggles to continue educating themselves and improving their own lives despite living ina country torn by war, violence, and oppression.
25) In from the cold
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A homeless mother and her teenage daughter live on the streets of a big city. Their lives are hard. They look for food in garbage dumpsters, bathe in donut shop washrooms, and hide from the police. The daughter is getting angry - she doesn't want this awful new life. She wants her other life back, the life with her friends and school. The mother keeps trying to do the right thing, but everything is going so wrong.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
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In this trilogy of short novels, reader will find a family who comes up with a unique solution to the problem of losing their breadwinner, how families are surviving in war-torn Afghanistan, and how a young girl survives alone with only a dog in the streets of Pakistan.
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Your Money and You makes it all about you-your wants and needs, and how you can achieve your financial goals. Author Deborah W. Ellis shares her personal stories-learning about investing from her aunt, her investing mistakes and successes, and her years of experience as a certified financial planner. Most importantly, she'll help you discover your beliefs and values about money so you can comfortably and knowledgably take on a leadership role in handling...
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When normal American middle-school student Clare dies and comes back as a cat in the middle of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, she wonders if she should even try to do what she can to help since, after all, she is just a cat.
30) No ordinary day
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Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
32) The breadwinner
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018].
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English
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Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
34) The heaven shop
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Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
35) True blue
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Pajama Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When her best friend Casey is accused of murdering an eight-year-old girl at summer camp, Jess must find the courage to stand by her friend while the pressure from the case begins to grow.
36) Moon at nine
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Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The day Farrin meets Sadira, she no longer feels alone. And when the two fifteen-year-old girls become close friends, they dream of a future where they will live together, where they will make something of their lives, and where no one will notice or care that they love each other. But Farrin and Sadira live in Iran under a regime so repressive that is considers homosexuals as deviants who must be eradicated. Unless they learn to hide their relationship...
37) The breadwinner
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family. Working alongside her friend Shauzia, Parvana discovers a new world of freedom, and danger. With undaunted courage, Parvana draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her...
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Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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This well-received novel from a cast of acclaimed authors is now available in paperback!A video message from a dead person. A larcenous teenager. A man who can stick his left toe behind his head and in his ear. An epileptic girl seeking answers in a fairy tale. A boy who loses everything in World War II, and his brother who loses even more. And a family with a secret so big that it changes everything.The world's best beloved authors each contribute...