The 2011 Willow Awards
Snow Willow Nominee
No Safe Place
Three orphan teens have each escaped their homelands (Russia, Romania and Iraq) and meet on a smuggler’s boat crossing the English Channel to their final destination and freedom. These modern-day illegal migrants tell their stories, as they each seek a better life in the world’s rich, safe countries.
About the Author
Deborah Ellis is from Simcoe, ON
Deborah Ellis has achieved international acclaim with her courageous and dramatic books that give Western readers a glimpse into the plight of children in developing countries. She has won the Governor General’s Award, Sweden’s Peter Pan Prize, the Ruth Schwartz Award, the University of California’s Middle East Book Award, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Vicky Metcalf Award. A long-time feminist and anti-war activist, she is best known for The Breadwinner Trilogy, which has been published around the world in seventeen languages, with more than a million dollars in royalties donated to Street Kids International and to Women for Women, an organization that supports health and education projects in Afghanistan.
Book Reviews
Suggested Activities
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Run For Your Life is a CBC documentary about three teen boys who escape a life of poverty in Honduras and travel north to the United States and Canada, to find a better life. Check it out.
- Canada is a land where much of the population is composed of immigrants or descendants of immigrants, who have come to find a better life. If you or a friend have origins in another country, try to uncover some interesting family history.
- What is the current law in Canada regarding immigration? How do people qualify to become landed immigrants and what problems might they face? A good starting place for information is the Government of Canada website.
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