Deborah Ellis on what she would be if she wasn't a writer Deborah Ellis selected Down Inside by Robert Clark. "One of 2017's important books is Down Inside: Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service ...

Deborah Ellis and Wab Kinew are two authors who’ve demonstrated a remarkable ability to tell true stories about the world’s less-Instagrammable realities in books that balance light and dark ...

Deborah Ellis on what she would be if she wasn't a writer The author of Sit and The Breadwinner series takes the CBC Books Magic 8 Q&A and answers eight questions from eight fellow authors.

Writer Deborah Ellis has been speaking with Afghan women and children for decades and she chronicles their stories in the book, "Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War." She ...

Author Deborah Ellis wrote The Breadwinner, which is about an 11-year-old Afghan girl who poses as a boy to earn money for her family. Heidy van Dyk ...

Deborah Ellis’s new novel, ... My Name Is Parvana by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books, $16.95 Sept. ISBN 978-1-55498-297-4. ADVERTISEMENT. More from pw. Summer Reads 2025.

Deborah Ellis doesn’t have WiFi at home. When the author needs to check her email, she walks to her local library, in Simcoe, Ontario, and when it’s time to send a manuscript to her publisher, she ...

Deborah Ellis, activist and author of more than 30 fiction and nonfiction books for children, including the Breadwinner trilogy, spoke with us about her new middle grade novel, 'The Outsmarters.' ...

Deborah Ellis donates royalties from sales of her novel The Breadwinner to a charity helping Afghan girls, raising nearly $2 million to date. (Heidy van Dyk/Groundwood Books) ...

PARIS — Paris Public Library’s Novel Idea Book Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17, to discuss sequels to Deborah Ellis’ books “The Breadwinner,” “Parvana’s Journey” and ...