It aptly demonstrates life under a repressive regime and how government control creeps into every facet of ordinary people's lives. There are a lot of positive points about this book. Sadira is executed and Farrin escapes and goes into exile, only to find her parents have married her off to a much older man.

Unfortunately, they are caught and arrested. She meets Sadira at her school and the two quickly fall in love. The main character Farrin lives in Iran, under a repressive government. Like the author's other books, it offers an excellent overview of life for young people in another part of the world. Moon at Nine is based on the life of a real woman interviewed by Deborah Ellis. However, after reading the book and carefully considering it, I'm still not sure what to do with it. None of the other books in this literature circle focus on gay rights, and I am eager to improve representation by including LGBTQ characters. The book focuses on discrimination faced by two girls who fall in love in Iran. Our school inherited a number of copies and my principal thought they might be a good fit in our grade seven human rights literature circle. 1.10 July 2019 / LGBTQ / Human Rights / Young Adult Books Moon at NineĮarlier this year I was asked to read Moon at Nine, written by Deborah Ellis. While we're not there yet, this list of books with numbers in the title from one to 13 will kickstart your own counting.

If you're like me, pretty soon you'll be trying to see if you can count your books up to Farenheit 451 or even 1984. Your 'ones' will be abundant, and then you'll find A Tale of Two Cities mingling with the Lord of the Rings book The Two Towers The Crying of Lot 49finding an unusual home next to Fifty Shades of Grey One Hundred Years of Solitudewith The 100 and a childhood favorite The Hundred Dresses and then you have to battle for the first book on the shelf, if it's Ready Player One, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, One Day, or, perhaps fittingly, The Lucky One (Zac Efron not included).

How do you organize your bookshelf? Do you line up the books by author last name, just like you learned from the library? Do you sort them by publication date, so the classics like Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey find a home together, and you can see the latest trends in lit on your 2016 shelf? Do you arrange them by book cover color, so you end up with a rainbow bookshelf that lights up your room? I have a new idea for you: Take books with numbers in the title and put them together to see the fun match-ups that will find a shelf home together.

Moon at nine by deborah ellis