Deborah Ellis won Canada's Governor General's Award in 2000 for her first book, Searching for X. She is also the author of several other books, including Parvana's Journey, winner of the Jane Addams Award and the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award, given annually by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canadian Booksellers Association. She lives in Ontario, Canada. Bahni Turpin is a Los Angeles–based audiobook narrator and actress with many television and film credits. Bahni is a two-time Odyssey Award winner and a two-time recipient of the Audie Award for Best Solo Female Narration. She was named an Audible Narrator of the Year in 2016, and The American Library Association’s Voice of Choice for 2017, and in 2018 she was inducted into the Audible Hall of Fame. Bahni is also an ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles.
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‘My life is dust and rocks and rude boys and skinny babies, and long days of searching for my mother when I don’t have the faintest idea where she might be.’ Parvana is alone. Her father is dead. A refugee in a land full of dangers, s... SEE MORE