Deborah ellis biography author richardson
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Forest of Reading Red Maple Award
Canadian literary award
The Red Maple Award is an award in the Ontario Library Association (OLA) Forest of Reading Awards. The Red Maple Award celebrates fiction (since 1998) and non-fiction (every other year since 2005) Canadian books for grades 7–8 (ages 12–14) every year. Out of ten nominated books in each category students must read a minimum of five to vote for their favourite. The winner is chosen by the most popular book in all participating libraries, schools, groups, etc.
History
[edit]Five years after the original Silver Birch Award was created an award for grades 7–9, the Red Maple Award was created. In 2005 a non-fiction subcategory of the Red Maple Award was created. It runs on all odd-numbered years.
So far, there have been 22 awards in fiction and 8 in non fiction.[1][2]
Only seven authors have won the award more than once: Eric Walters (2001, 2007 Fiction, 2008, 2015 Fiction) with four, Susin Neilse
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Since its publication in 2000, hundreds of thousands of children all over the world have read and loved The Breadwinner, the fictional story of eleven-year-old Parvana living in Kabul beneath the terror of the Taliban. But what happened to Afghanistans children after the fall of the Taliban in 2001? In 2011, Deborah Ellis went to Kabul to find out. The twenty-six boys and girls featured in this book range in age from ten to seventeen, and they speak candidly about their lives now. They are still living in a country at war. Violence and oppression exist all around them. The situation for girls has improved, but it is still difficult and dangerous. And many children boys and girls are still supporting their families by selling items like pencils and matches on the street. Yet these kids are weathering their lives with remarkable courage and hope, getting as much education and life experience and fun as they can. All royalties from the sale of Kids of Kabul will go to Right to Learn Afg
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Dorothy Richardson 1873 – 1957
Detailed Bibliography of Dorothy Richardson
Works on Richardson
3.1 Books
3.2 Articles in Books and Periodicals
3.2.1 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1915-1945
3.2.2 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1946-1965
3.2.3 Articles in Books and Periodicals 1965-1993
3.2.4 Articles in Books and Periodicals since 1993
3.3. Reprints of Books and Articles
3.4 Unpublished Research
3.5. Untranslated Foreign Language Books and Articles
3.6. Books and Articles in which DMR is mentioned
3.1 Books
Powys, John C. Dorothy M. Richardson. London: Joiner & Steele, 1931.
Compares DMR's heroine to Faust and Hamlet in her "female quest for the essence of human experience," and DMR herself is likened to Dostoyevski as "original philosopher and artist." [Despite these extreme analogies] points out [perceptively] that DMR refused to be bound by any systems of thought; that there would be no "neat denouement" to her novel, no "spiritual formula" to round out the