Pictures from the Fire

Deadlands: Trapped

Back to Freethorn

Skin

Grace Raymond

The Lantern Fox (Mammoth Reads)

Snapping Turtles

The Purple Valley

Mehmet does not understand why his family wants to leave their beautiful, blossom-filled village to move to the city. Their new home on the hills around Ankara is in the shanty-town, and there Mehmet must learn different ways of surviving life on the streets - fast. He makes new friends, like Muhlis, who deals in scrap, and rediscovers his boyhood companion Hayri, now starving and desperate. Through their eyes, Mehmet begins to recognise the trap that poverty has sprung around them - and he forges plans to escape to a better life.
An enthralling and unforgettable story about poverty and injustice, from award-winning novelist Gaye Hiçyilmaz.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

Pictures from the Fire

Gaye Hiçyılmaz, Gaye Hicyilmaz, 2003

Deadlands: Trapped

Skye Melki-Wegner, 2023

Back to Freethorn

Lillian Fielding, 2016

Skin

Christine Webster, 2005

Grace Raymond

, 1800

The Lantern Fox (Mammoth Reads)

Garry Kilworth, 1998

Snapping Turtles

Christopher Blomquist, 2004

The Purple Valley

Malcolm Saville, 1964