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  • Off to War Voices of Soldiers' Children
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    Ellis, Deborah

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    Society of School Librarians International Honor Book Deborah Ellis has been widely praised for her gripping books portraying the plight of children in war-torn countries.

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  • Looking for X
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    Ellis, Deborah

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    Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award In this urban adventure story, Khyber, a smart, bold, eleven-year-old girl from a poor neighborhood, sets out to find her friend X, a mysterious

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  • The Cat at the Wall
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    Ellis, Deborah

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    A cat sneaks into a small Palestinian house on the West Bank that has just been commandeered by two Israeli soldiers.

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  • The Breadwinner
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    "All girls [should read] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis." — Malala Yousafzai, New York TimesThe first book in Deborah Ellis’s riveting Breadwinner series is

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  • Parvana's Journey
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    The second book in the internationally-bestselling series that includes The Breadwinner, Mud City and My Name Is ParvanaA war is raging in Afghanistan as a coalition of Western forces tries to oust

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  • Moon at Nine
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that con

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  • True Blue  
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    A person doesn't have to do anything important to get recognition anymore; it's enough to know someone who does. Parasitic fame.

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  • Bearwalker
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

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    Although the littlest student in his class, thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast when he tries to get help for his cla

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  • Children of the longhouse
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

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    Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.

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  • The Clear-Out
    Author:

    Ellis, Deborah

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    This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. Duncan is very angry.

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  • The winter people
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

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    14-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prison

    Genre: Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction, Indigenous materials

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  • Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
    Author:

    Bruchac, Joseph

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    After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during

    Genre: Young adult fiction, Indigenous materials

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