Will her family find a way to save them both?īased on real-life events, multi-award-winning author Deborah Ellis’s new book is a tense and riveting story about a world where homosexuality is considered so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Separated from Sadira, Farrin can only pray as she awaits execution. Despite their efforts to keep their love secret, the girls are discovered and arrested. It is against the law to be a homosexual in Iran the punishment is death. But as their friendship deepens into romance, the relationship takes a dangerous turn. Sadira is funny, wise and outgoing the two girls become inseparable. The day she meets Sadira, Farrin’s life changes forever. Deborah Ellis, Moon at Nine m his letter from Sadira to Farrin, the I two female protagonists in Moon at Nine, highlights the themes of com ing of age and identity formation that pervade Deborah Ellis's powerful love story set in a culture that forbids homosexuality. If the Revolutionary Guard finds out about her mother’s Bring Back the Shah activities, her family could be thrown in jail or worse.

It is 1988 ever since the Shah was overthrown, the deeply conservative and religious government controls every facet of life in Iran. Although she goes to a school for gifted girls in Tehran, as the daughter of an aristocratic mother and wealthy father Farrin must keep a low profile. Bifocal is a book about racism and rooting terrorists in Canada.Fifteen-year-old Farrin has many secrets. The book is called Bifocal, highlighting two boys and their sides to the story about what happened. She also wrote a book with Eric Walters about the plotted terrorist attacks in Canada. While The Breadwinner was inspired by an interview with a mother in a refugee camp, the subsequent books in the trilogy were more imaginative explorations of how children would survive. She travelled to Afghanistan in 1997 to interview women in refugee camps, from these interviews she wrote the trilogy which includes The Breadwinner (Parvana), Parvana's Journey, Mud City, and an adult book Women of the Afghan War. Ellis is an active anti-war activist and feminist, and has written many children's books which reflect this. Ellis said that she decided to start writing when she was 11 or 12. She won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature for her first novel, Looking for X. Deborah Ellis was born in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada in 1960.

Moon at Nine by Deborah Ellis