Parvana a onze ans et n'a jamais connu son pays autrement qu'en guerre. Une guerre de cauchemar qui interdit aux femmes de sortir non voilées ou sans l'escorte d'un homme, père ou mari. Assez grande pour être soumise à ces interdits, Parvana doit pourtant trouver une façon de les contourner. Car depuis que les talibans ont emprisonné son père, c'est sur elle seule que repose la survie de la famille...

Parvana a onze ans et n'a jamais connu son pays autrement qu'en guerre. Une guerre de cauchemar qui interdit aux femmes de sortir non voilées ou sans l'escorte d'un homme, père ou mari. Assez grande pour être soumise à ces interdits, Parvana doit pourtant trouver une façon de les contourner. Car depuis que les talibans ont emprisonné son père, c'est sur elle seule que repose la survie de la famille...

Based on interviews with a young woman forced to flee Iran because of her sexual orientation, Moon at Nine is a tense and riveting novel that shines a light on an issue of social injustice that continues to this day. Fifteen-year-old Farrin has grown up with secrets: ten years after the overthrow of the Shah, her aristocratic mother is still working against Iran's conservative revolutionary government. But when Farrin befriends Sadira, the intriguing and outgoing new student at her school for gifted girls, her own new secret is even more dangerous. Because the girls discover their relationship is more than just a friendship-and in Iran, being gay is punishable by death.

Two bestselling authors join forces to write a powerful novel about racism.A student arrested on suspicions of terrorism. A high school torn apart by racism. Two boys from two different sets of circumstances forced to choose sides.These are the issues at the heart of Bifocal, a groundbreaking new novel for young-adults. The story is told from two different points of view. Haroon is a serious student devoted to his family. His grandparents emigrated from Afghanistan. Jay is a football star devoted to his team. He is white. One day their high school is put on lockdown, and the police arrest a Muslim student on suspicion of terrorist affiliations. He might be guilty. Or is he singled out because of his race?The entire student body fragments along racial lines and both Haroon and Jay find that their differences initially put them at odds. The Muslim students become targets and a smoke-bomb is set off near their lockers while Jay and his teammates believe they've been set-up to look like racists.Bifocal is, by no stretch, an easy book. Award-winning authors Deborah Ellis and Eric Walters deliver a serious, hard-hitting book about racism that does not talk down to young people.