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Shadow

January 1, 2011 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…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…

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The Hollow People

November 1, 2006 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…‘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….

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Bedlam

March 1, 2009 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…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…

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Me, In Between

May 20, 2022 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…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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Meltem’s Journey

January 1, 2011 /in Picture Information Book 8-10 Junior/Middle

…why Meltem’s family were forced to leave their home, most of the book is concerned with the difficulties of their search for asylum in England: movement from city to city,…

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Twelve Minutes to Midnight

March 1, 2012 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…arrive when Penny receives word of weird happenings at Bedlam, the notorious mental asylum. With Monty she visits the asylum and sees a heavily veiled woman leaving, and finds the…

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Kicked Out

September 19, 2023 /in 10-14 Middle/Secondary football

…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…

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Girl with a White Dog

May 1, 2014 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…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,…

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Hidden

May 1, 2011 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…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…

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Dead Romantic

January 1, 2013 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…crazed scientist who murdered people for his experiments, before being locked up in a mental asylum. After Zoe demonstrates in a dissection class that she can bring dead hamsters back…

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon

January 1, 2014 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…an asylum-seeking girl on a magical adventure is a brilliantly inventive, bittersweet modern romance, suitable for older readers. In many ways the unnamed heroine’s quest for her bear/prince lover is…

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Who are Refugees and Migrants? What makes People Leave their Homes and Other Big Questions

January 5, 2017 /in Non Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

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…

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Only Eva

May 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…are living in a detention centre while seeking asylum. Eva tackles them as she always does, positively, with good-humour and boundless energy. Her enthusiasm is contagious and, with the help…

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These Shallow Graves

September 5, 2015 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

…his inspiration, a bleak lunatic asylum where the sane might be incarcerated by their enemies, and a warren of grimy alleyways peopled by scar-faced men with knives. There is even…

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Mr Sparks

November 5, 2015 /in Fiction 10-14 Middle/Secondary

…in an asylum. His future seems bleak, until an unusual guest arrives. Otto Schilling is a ventriloquist, a frail and elderly man whose luggage attests to his long travelling life….

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Hello! A Counting Book of Kindnesses

July 1, 2020 /in Picture Book Under 5s Pre-School/Nursery/Infant Adventure

…can you think of to be kind?’ encouraging discussion of simple ways to extend a hand of friendship and help to those seeking asylum. Key facts are included in the…

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The Journey

January 5, 2017 /in Picture Book 5-8 Infant/Junior

…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…

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Whisper My Name

March 1, 2011 /in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult

Jane Eagland’s earlier book for young adults, Wildthorn, saw its young heroine confined to a Victorian asylum as the penalty for difference from contemporary norms. Whisper My Name returns to…

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