Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana is a follow-up to her Breadwinner trilogy about 11-year old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to work and support Continue reading ...

What would you do for your family? On Nov. 2, the Museum of Tolerance held a special screening of the film, "The Breadwinner," by director Nora Twomey. Based on the award-winning novel by Deborah ...

That’s why Parvana, the 11-year-old heroine of Deborah Ellis’ children’s novel The Breadwinner (Oxford University Press; 170 pages), has to make a choice: remain a girl, a virtual prisoner ...

Based on a children’s novel by Deborah Ellis and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, Nora Twomey’s animated feature ‘The Breadwinner’ centers on a young Afghan girl’… ...