Ellis, Deborah

Fifteen-year-old Parvana recounts memories from the past four years of her life as she awaits foreign military forces to determine her fate and wonders if she will ever be reunited with those she loves.

A North American girl comes back to life as a cat, and finds herself in the middle of a Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

After being taken in by a family of coca farmers, Diego is devastated when the army threatens to destroy the only source of income they have and so works to stop the army and save the people he has come to love.

In 1988, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran. Fifteen-year-old Farrin falls in love with her friend Sadira, but it is against the law to be a homosexual in Iran, punishable by death. Despite their efforts to keep their relationship secret, the girls are discovered and arrested.

After her father is arrested by the Taliban, Parvana, an eleven-year-old Afghan girl, disguises herself as a boy so that she can work and support her family.

After their father dies of AIDS, Binti and her siblings are orphaned, split up, and sent to live with relatives all over Malawi, but after they suffer increasing hardships, the siblings are reunited through the influence of their formidable grandmother.