Since then Deborah has become a peace activist, humanitarian and philanthropist, donating almost all of the royalties from her books to communities in need in Asia and Africa. In high school, Deborah joined the Peace Movement, playing anti-Nuclear War movies at her school. Growing up in Paris, Ontario, she loved reading about big cities like New York. She has won many national and international awards for her books, including the Governor General’s Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award, Sweden’s Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, and the Children’s Africana Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers.Deborah knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of 11 or 12. About the authorĭeborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books for children, including The Breadwinner Trilogy The Heaven Shop Lunch With Lenin Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees and Our Stories, Our Songs: African Children Talk About AIDS. Royalties from the sale of this book will go to Street Kids International. This is a powerful and very human story of a feisty, driven girl who tries to take control of her own life.Ī map, glossary and author's note provide young readers with background and context. But just when she thinks the family will ask her to stay with them, disaster ensues, and Shauzia finds herself driven back to the refugee camp, where she discovers the old choices are not so easy any more. They take her to their home in a residential part of Peshawar, and for a time she has a taste of a life where children have food to eat and warm beds and toys to play with, and she feels safe for the first time. An incident with a dishonest man lands her in jail, where she spends the night, terrified and despairing, before well-meaning Americans she met when she was begging rescue her. She is determined to earn money to buy her passage out of the country. Shauzia finally decides to leave the camp and try her luck on the streets. 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. The third book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey and My Name Is Parvana
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