Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis
By an award-winning author, this novel tells the story of Parvana, travelling alone across a war-ridden Afghanistan in an attempt to find her familyAs international interest continues to focus on Afghanistan, this novel tells the human story behind the headlinesTackles the topical issues of landmines and refugee campsBased on impeccable research in an Afghan refugee campLike The Breadwinner, this is an engrossing and deeply moving story about a child reacting courageously to difficult eventsThe author has been to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and Russia and listened to many stories like Parvana's
Deborah Ellis says her books reflect the heroism of people around the world who are struggling for decent lives, and how they try to remain kind in spite of it. Whether she is writing about families living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, street children in Pakistan, the coca protests in Bolivia, or the lives of military children, she is, as Kirkus attests, an important voice of moral and social conscience.
A lifelong small-town Ontarian -- born and raised in Cochrane and Paris and now living in Simcoe -- Deb has won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Vicki Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She recently received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has also been named to the Order of Ontario.
She is best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy, set in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- a series that has been published in seventeen countries, with more than one million dollars in royalties donated to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. Her recent young adult novel, No Safe Place (which has so far received starred reviews in Quill & Quire, Kirkus and School Library Journal), follows three teenagers who flee desperate situations in their home countries and make a perilous journey across the English Channel to seek new lives in England.
A lifelong small-town Ontarian -- born and raised in Cochrane and Paris and now living in Simcoe -- Deb has won the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and the Vicki Metcalf Award for a Body of Work. She recently received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has also been named to the Order of Ontario.
She is best known for her Breadwinner Trilogy, set in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- a series that has been published in seventeen countries, with more than one million dollars in royalties donated to Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. Her recent young adult novel, No Safe Place (which has so far received starred reviews in Quill & Quire, Kirkus and School Library Journal), follows three teenagers who flee desperate situations in their home countries and make a perilous journey across the English Channel to seek new lives in England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192752857 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192752855 |
| Title | Parvana's Journey |
| Author | Deborah Ellis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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