Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner Collection)

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In 2014, she published Moon at Nine, a YA novel based on the true story of two teenage girls who are arrested and thrown in prison in Iran, a country where homosexuality is punishable by death. About the authors [ permanent dead link], Skokie Public Library, Skokie, Illinois. Accessed October 8, 2012 [ dead link] Born in Cochrane Ontario, Ellis and her family moved several times during her childhood due to her parents' work. Ellis started writing when she was 11 or 12 years old. [1] Career [ edit ] One of her best known works is the 2004 book The Heaven Shop, which tells of a family of orphans in Malawi who are struggling with sudden displacement as a result of the HIV/AIDS impact. The novel was written to dispel myths about HIV/AIDS and celebrate the courage of child sufferers. [10] Notable Children's Books, Association for Library Service to Children. American Library Association. Accessed October 7, 2012

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Much of her work as a writer has been inspired by her travels and conversations with people from around the world and their stories. She has held many jobs advocating for the peace movement and the anti-war movement. Throughout the book, Parvana grows closer to her older sister Nooria as well as the woman who appears in the window of a building close to where Parvana works. She throws small gifts onto Parvana's blanket from her window.In 1999, her novel Looking for X was published. It follows a young girl in her day-to-day life in a poor area of Toronto [8] and it received the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature in 2000. [9] The novel was followed by four sequels, Parvana's Journey in 2002, Mud City in 2003, My Name is Parvana in 2012 and One More Mountain in 2022. [5] Plot [ edit ] In 2007, with Eric Walters, Ellis wrote Bifocal, a novel about racism and terrorists in Canada. [14] Her mother and Mrs. Weera decide to disguise Parvana as a boy by cutting her hair and dressing her in her deceased brother Hossain's old clothes so that she can buy groceries. She also continues her father's business of reading and writing letters for illiterate people. Parvana runs into a girl who she used to go to school with named Shauzia. They start a business partnership. Although they were never close in school, they bond trying to figure out ways to earn more money. They come up with an idea of a portable "shop" by using trays to move their wares around. However, they must first obtain money to buy trays. They find a way to earn money by digging up bones from graves.

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She travelled to Pakistan in 1997 to interview refugees at an Afghan refugee camp. [2] From these interviews, she wrote The Breadwinner series, which includes The Breadwinner (2001), a book about a girl named Parvana, [3] [4] Parvana's Journey (2002), its sequel, [5] Mud City (2003), about Shauzia, Parvana's best friend, [6] and My Name is Parvana (2011), the fourth book in the series. While The Breadwinner was inspired by an interview with a mother and a girl who disguised herself as a boy in a refugee camp, [7] the subsequent books in the series were more imaginative explorations of how children would survive. Nooria announces that she is leaving for Mazar-e-Sharif to marry a boy and to go to college. She leaves along with her mother and younger siblings, but Parvana stays as she looks like a boy and her appearance will be difficult to explain. Despite being against it at first, Parvana grows to accept her sister's decision. The biggest change Parvana experiences in the book creates a solution that literally saves her family from starvation. I’ll let you read the book yourself if you want to know what that change is though. These books are the first 2 of a series of 4 books which were made into a successful animated film called ‘The Breadwinner’ in 2017 which can be seen on Netflix. The film was produced by the actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie. I would definitely recommend these books to any person who enjoys reading books based on real life events. I give both books 4.5 stars out of 5Deborah Ellis CM OOnt (born August 7, 1960) is a Canadian fiction writer and activist. Her themes are often concerned with the sufferings of persecuted children in the Third World.