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The year is 1918. The village has lost so many of its men to the war – sons, brothers, fathers. Now flu is raging through the community. No one is…
Yanni hates his new home – stuck out in the middle of nowhere, and he hates his baby sister – the cuckoo in the nest as far as he is…
This enchanting story begins with an extract from the diary of Araminta Lang, Rome, in May 1918, in which we learn of the birth of the first unicorns. It is…
…the plight of asylum seekers in Yarl’s Wood detention centre. From these, he has made a story about an Afghan boy and his mother fleeing the Taliban; their friendship with…
…the heart of ‘Bedlam’. She is rescued by a mysterious boy, Kos, when she almost drowns in the flooded cellars of the old building. Is Kos one of the asylum-seekers…
…the spot. Aadam is attempting to pay a lawyer to negotiate his appeal for an asylum application, so he does need quite a lot of money, but of course he…
…‘The Promises of Dr Sigmundus’ trilogy. Pronounced a dangerous inmate of the Tarnagar asylum, Dante Cazabon’s mother committed suicide leaving her son orphaned and under the care of asylum staff….
…of fictional narratives about young refugees written by those who have themselves been asylum seekers and by those who have worked with them. Although fictional, their stories are grounded in…
Hardly a day goes by without there being something in the news about asylum seekers and what we as a nation should be doing. Perhaps we should take a leaf…
…gripping and profound novel does indeed cover big issues like death, grief, mental health, asylum seekers lives and threats to nature, but ultimately it is a life enhancing book about…
…even worse. The story concerns a village with an asylum seekers’ camp on its outskirts. Ruby Tanya, the 12-year-old British heroine, has her best friend there. But her stupid, prejudiced…
…asylum seekers in Australia. The story is told by Bridget, and her first-person narrative draws the reader in from the very first line. The book is packed with a variety…
…with both troubled children in institutions and asylum seekers. This experience informs a sensitive book which, in addition to tackling a delicate subject, has the added responsibility of making it…
…local community. There are no high powered chases or international criminal masterminds; rather we are presented with the desperation faced by many asylum seekers as they struggle to make themselves…
…Booth sets the brutal practices of the Nazis alongside contemporary prejudices towards immigrants, asylum seekers, the disabled, anyone weaker or less popular than yourself in school. Her Author’s Note confirms,…
How do you introduce young people to the issues surrounding the journeys, often full of dangers, of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants as they seek to join new countries and…
…me having taught in London schools where asylum seekers and refugees enriched our lives as they shared their personal stories with us. Every child, and every adult should read and…
…waiting anxiously for news of their application for asylum; ‘family’ means Dad, Mum, Madina, seven-year-old brother Rami, and silent, hostile Aunt Amina. Only Madina has a growing competence in German,…
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