Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner series, which has been published in twenty-five languages and has earned more than £1 million in royalties to benefit Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Bodyof Work. She has received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Canada.

[The books in the Breadwinner series] are terrifying indictments of what war can bring to children and a powerful testament to the ingenuity and strength of young people in times of terror.

Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner series, which has been published in twenty-five languages and has earned more than £1 million in royalties to benefit Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Bodyof Work. She has received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Canada.

[The books in the Breadwinner series] are terrifying indictments of what war can bring to children and a powerful testament to the ingenuity and strength of young people in times of terror.

Deborah Ellis is best known for her Breadwinner series, which has been published in twenty-five languages and has earned more than £1 million in royalties to benefit Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and Street Kids International. She has won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the University of California's Middle East Book Award, the Governor General's Award, the Ruth Schwartz Award, Sweden's Peter Pan Prize, and the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Bodyof Work. She has received the Ontario Library Association's President's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and she has been named to the Order of Canada.

[The books in the Breadwinner series] are terrifying indictments of what war can bring to children and a powerful testament to the ingenuity and strength of young people in times of terror.