![]() Free UK p&p over £15, online orders only. This is an important, heartbreaking book, with frequent, unexpected humour, that everyone, whether teenager or adult, should read. Their friendship is increasingly important as further tragedy unravels at the camp. She has her own problems, including a notebook she can’t read, written by her late mother Subhi is able to decode it for her. With its tents that sleep 50, bad food and guards of varying dispositions, it’s the only world he knows, apart from the stories he hears in the camp, and through Jimmie, a girl from “Outside” who sneaks under the fence to meet him. ![]() ![]() Orangeboy is about a black London teen who gets dragged. ![]() Thank you Patrice Lawrence for such a fresh and riveting piece of fiction.' Ben Bailey Smith (Doc Brown)'What a book Such a gripping, gritty storyline, with such wonderful, believable characters. Subhi is a 10-year-old boy who has spent his life in unspeakable conditions in an Australian refugee detention centre with his traumatised mother and stroppy older sister. A few years ago a novel called Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence was released and along with winning a number of literary prizes for YA books it has also become a popular if hard to find addition to some British Literature classes as a way to include non-Anglo voices in the British Lit class. WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE FOR OLDER READERS, SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD AND THE YA BOOK PRIZE'A truly brilliant book.' Malorie Blackman'Incredible book. Back to stories-in-stories, The Bone Sparrow is an outstanding novel from Australian author Zana Fraillon (Orion). ![]()
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