Deborah ellis biography summary examples

Deborah constantly moved around with her family and on her journeys, she decided to write down the stories of the people she met. She is a humanitarian and an anti-war activist. The sequel, Sacred Leaf, is about Diego's time with the Ricardos a family who helped Diego and a giant coca leaf protest.

Deborah ellis biography summary examples

Inshe 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. The fifth book in Ellis's Breadwinner series, One More Mountain was published by Groundwood books intakes up Parvana's story as the Americans are leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban are regaining control in Kabul.

Honour InEllis was named to the Order of Ontario. Ellis decided to start writing when she was years old. When she grew up, her work and writing was mainly done by traveling and talking to others that have problems and documenting down the main things. She started to write her first book, The Breadwinner some time later. 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.

Inher 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