Deborah Ellis selected Down Inside by Robert Clark. "One of 2017's important books is Down Inside: Thirty Years in Canada's Prison Service by Robert Clark. We smug Canadians like to lambaste the ...

In Sit, Deborah Ellis tells the stories of nine children facing adult-sized challenges. From Jafar, a child labourer in Indonesia, to Sue, who is waiting on a supervised visit with her father, the ...

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 ...

Afghanistan's decade-long insurgency has largely been fought by men. But in 2011, author Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to ask, how do Afghanistan's children see their future? She tries to answer ...

It made Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana, published by Toronto-based Groundwood Books, seem particularly timely.

The new animated film The Breadwinner, based on the bestselling book by Canadian Deborah Ellis, tells the story of 11-year-old Parvana, at left, who disguises herself as a boy in order to support ...

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 ...

In the third book in the Breadwinner trilogy (The Breadwinner; Parvana's Journey), Mud City by Deborah Ellis, Afghani refugee 14-year-old Shauzia (Parvana's best friend) leaves the mud-walled ...

Directed by Kells co-director Nora Twomey and based on Deborah Ellis’ YA novel, The Breadwinner centrs on Parvana, a young girl living under the Taliban regime, who cuts her hair and disguises ...

2017 Books of the Year: Hollywood joins Deborah Ellis’s fight to create stories that make a difference Deborah Ellis doesn’t have WiFi at home. When the author needs to check her email, she walks to ...

Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books, $15.95 (170pp) ISBN 978-0-88899-419-6 Ellis (Looking for X) bases her contemporary novel on refugee stories about the oppressive rule of Afghanistan by the Taliban.