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The Breadwinner she tells the story of another eleven-year-old girl who outsmarts the restrictive Taliban militia in Afghanistan by cutting her hair and dressing as a boy. Both Ellis's juvenile novels "push . . . middle class readers to look beyond the soft confines of their cocoons," according to Huron. Ellis, who has donated the earnings of both her books about Afghanistan to a school for Afghan girls in Pakistan, further commented to Huron about the importance of reading in developing a social conscience: "I think we read in order to be taken places that we haven't gone to ourselves. I also think that kids face all kinds of terror in their day-to-day lives and to get models, even from a very foreign kind of place, about how they can deal with their own terrors, is a compelling reason to read."
Born in Canada, Ellis was raised and attended high school in Paris, Ontario, graduating in 1978. As soon as she had her diploma in hand, she departed for Toronto where she became involved as an activist, protesting in the early 1980s against the nuclear arms buildup of the cold war.
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