Bøger af Deborah Ellis

THE PEOPLE OF BOLIVIA HAVE GROWN COCA FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, BUT THE DEMANDS OF AMERICA S WAR ON DRUGS NOW THREATEN THIS WAY OF LIFE. DEBORAH ELLIS S SEARING FOLLOW-UP TO THE HIGHLY PRAISED I AM A TAXI DEALS WITH THIS FRANK REALITY. AFTER HE MANAGES TO ESCAPE FROM VIRTUAL ENSLAVEMENT IN AN ILLEGAL COCAINE OPERATION, DIEGO IS TAKEN IN BY THE RICARDO FAMILY. THESE POOR COCA FARMERS GIVE DIEGO A SAFE HAVEN WHERE HE RECOVERS FROM HIS ORDEAL IN THE JUNGLE. BUT THE ARMY SOON MOVES IN AND DESTROYS THE FAMILY S COCA CROP -- THEIR LIVELIHOOD. SO DIEGO JOINS THE COCALEROS AS THEY PROTEST THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR CROPS AND CONFRONT THE ARMY HEAD-ON BY BARRICADING THE ROADS. WHILE TENSION BETWEEN THE COCALEROS AND THE ARMY BUILDS TO A DRAMATIC CLIMAX, DIEGO WONDERS WHETHER HE WILL EVER FIND A WAY TO RETURN TO HIS FAMILY. THIS COMPELLING NOVEL DEFIES CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON AN IMPORTANT ISSUE, AND SHOWS HOW PEOPLE IN ONE PART OF THE WORLD UNKNOWINGLY CREATE HARDSHIP FOR PEOPLE IN ANOTHER. अचानक पडलेल्या प्रकाशाने दिएगोच्या डोळ्यासमोर एकदम अंधारच पसरला. समोरच काही दिसत नव्हत. फक्त मोठंमोठे दिवे भगभगीत उजेड ओकत होते. त्या प्रकाशात कुठल्यातरी सावल्या हलताना दिसत होत्या. त्या सावल्यावरून त्यांन अंदाज बांधला - रणगाडे पोहोचलेत. तेवढयात हेलीकॉप्टरचा कर्कश आवाज कानी पडू लागला. घिरटया घालणार हेलिकॉप्टर आंदोलकांच्या हालचाली टिपत होत. दिएगोला कळून चुकल; संपल सारं! ते आलेत, आर्मीने घेरलय. काय होईल, कळायला काहि मार्गच नव्हता.

FOR TWELVE-YEAR-OLD DIEGO AND HIS FAMILY, HOME IS THE SAN SEBASTIAN WOMEN S PRISON IN COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA. HIS PARENTS FARMED COCA, A TRADITIONAL BOLIVIAN MEDICINAL PLANT, UNTIL THEY GOT CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GOVERNMENT S WAR ON DRUGS. DIEGO S ADJUSTED TO HIS NEW LIFE. HIS PARENTS ARE LOCKED UP, BUT HE CAN COME AND GO: TO SCHOOL, TO THE MARKET TO SELL HIS MOTHER S HAND-KNITTED GOODS, AND TO WORK AS A "TAXI," RUNNING ERRANDS FOR OTHER PRISONERS. BUT THEN HIS LITTLE SISTER RUNS AWAY, EARNING HIS MOTHER A HEAVY FINE. THE DEBT AND DAWNING REALIZATION OF HIS HOPELESS SITUATION MAKE HIM VULNERABLE TO HIS FRIEND MANDO S PLAN TO MAKE BIG MONEY, FAST. SOON, DIEGO IS DEEP IN THE JUNGLE, WORKING AS A VIRTUAL SLAVE IN AN ILLEGAL COCAINE OPERATION. AS HIS SITUATION BECOMES MORE AND MORE DANGEROUS, HE KNOWS HE MUST TAKE A TERRIBLE RISK IF HE EVER WANTS TO SEE HIS FAMILY AGAIN. काळीकुट्ट रात्रं.... मिट्ट काळोख आणि घनदाट जंगल; पायाखालची अनोळखी वाट तुडवत दिएगो चालत होता. तो कुठं जातोय, काय करणार याची त्याला काही कल्पना नव्हती. जंगलातून माकडांच्या भयाण किंकाळ्या कानावर पडत होत्या, बेडकांचे कर्कश्य डराँवऽ डराँवऽ ऐकून पोटात कालवत होतं. हे असं भयाण जंगल त्यानं आजवर कधी पाहिलंही नव्हतं. पहाडी भागातला हा मुलगा, द-याखो-यात त्याचं लहानसं कुटुंब राहायचं. पण काळानं असा काही घात केला की, सारं कुटुंबच तुरुंगाच्या चार भिंतीआड रवाना झालं. दिएगोही तुरंगातच राहायचा, शहरातल्या तुरुंगात. शहरभर पायाला चाकं लावून फिरायच

Deborah Ellis, activist and award-winning author of The Breadwinner interviews young people involved in the criminal justice system and lets them tell their own stories.Jamar found refuge in a gang after leaving an abusive home where his mother stole from him. Fred was arrested for assault with a weapon, public intoxication and attacking his mother while on drugs. Jeremy first went to court at age fourteen ("Court gives you the feeling that you can never make up for what you did, that you're just bad forever") but now wears a Native Rights hat to remind him of his strong Métis heritage. Kate, charged with petty theft and assault, finally found a counselor who treated her like a person for the first time.Many readers will recognize themselves, or someone they know, somewhere in these stories. Being lucky or unlucky after making a mistake. The encounter with a mean cop or a good one. Couch-surfing, or being shunted from one foster home to another. The kids in this book represent a range of socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations and ethnicities. Every story is different, but there are common threads - loss of parenting, dislocation, poverty, truancy, addiction, discrimination. The book also includes the points of view of family members as well as "voices of experience" - adults looking back at their own experiences as young offenders.Most of all, this book leaves readers asking the most pressing questions of all. Does it make sense to put kids in jail? Can't we do better? Have we forgotten that we were once teens ourselves, feeling powerless to change our lives, confused about who we were and what we wanted, and quick to make a move without a thought for the consequences?Key Text Featuresillustrationsphotographsfurther readingglossaryresourcesCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

This is an account of the Afghan War and its tragic aftermath as told by the women who were caught in it and became its innocent victims. The voices in this oral history provide personal snapshots to the news reports of the Taliban activities emerging from Afghanistan.

'Diego had never been in the jungle before. He'd lived with his family high in the hills, and then he was a prison kid, a city kid. His nights were bare light bulbs burning, women and children crying, guards yelling and keys clanging. He hated it, but it was what he was used to . . .'A simple error of judgement hurls Diego into a nightmare. He's been living in prison with his mother and sister, looking after them and earning money whenever he can. Until the day he accidentally breaks the rules. Suddenly the family are in trouble, and Diego needs money to save them. So when one of his friends tells Diego that he knows a job that will make them both rich, Diego gives into temptation. But the job is far different from the one he'd imagined, and Diego soon finds himself in the heart of the Bolivian jungle and the clutches of men who produce drugs for a living . . .