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Suitable for: Age 9+ years; Teachers and Librarians; Fans of Deborah Ellis's best-selling backlist: The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey, Mud City and her recently published The Heaven Shop.
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Where do you search for someone who doesn't want to be found? Khyber's life is falling apart. Her mum is talking about sending her twin brothers to a Special School far away. The cool girls in class are picking on her more and more, and her teachers think she's a loser and troublemaker. The only thing that's working out is her friendship with X, a bag lady she meets in the park. But X is scared. She won't tell Khyber her name, saying that the Secret Police are out to get her.
When someone smashes all of the school windows one night, everyone's convinced it was Khyber, even her mum - a betrayal that appals Khyber. Only X can prove that Khyber wasn't anywhere near the school at the time,
but X has disappeared. If Khyber is going to find her, she'll have to search Toronto's most dangerous streets at night . . .Features- Another startling and stirring novel from a best-selling writer.
- Ian McEwan for children! Deborah Ellis writes about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
- Very strong backlist sales - The Breadwinner has sold over 50,000 copies and Parvana's Journey and Mud City are constantly reprinting.
- The Heaven Shop, Deborah's previous novel, was chosen as Ottakar's Book of the Month.
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"[Reviews for The Breadwinner]:
'deserves to become a bestseller." - Daily Telegraph
"a powerful and gruesome depiction of life under the Taliban regime, told honestly by children." - Entertainment News
"[Reviews for Parvana's Journey]:
'A book all children should read" - The Teacher
". . a harrowing, true-to-life story . . . meticulously researched and sensitively written, but not for the faint-hearted." - Northern Echo
"a book all young teens should read . . . It is impossible not to be moved" - Birmingham Post
"A moving story, with a deeply satisfying ending, the novel convincingly portrays the story of the real children behind the headlines about landmines and refugee camps." - Best Books Guide 2003
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