Funky Chickens

Talking Turkeys

Grenade

The Other Side of Truth

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears: Paola Santiago

The Language of Spells

Maybe a Fox

Red Butterfly

Alem is on holiday with his father for a few days in London. He has never been out of Ethiopia before and is very excited. They have a great few days togther until one morning when Alem wakes up in the bed and breakfast they are staying at to find the unthinkable. His father has left him. It is only when the owner of the bed and breakfast hands him a letter that Alem is given an explanation. Alem's father admits that because of the political problems in Ethiopia both he and Alem's mother felt Alem would be safer in London - even though it is breaking their hearts to do this. Alem is now on his own, in the hands of the social services and the Refugee Council. He lives from letter to letter, waiting to hear from his father, and in particular about his mother, who has now gone missing... A powerful, gripping new novel from the popular Benjamin Zephaniah.

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Funky Chickens

Benjamin Zephaniah, 1996

Talking Turkeys

Benjamin Zephaniah, 1995

Grenade

Alan Gratz, 2018

The Other Side of Truth

Beverley Naidoo, 2000

Paola Santiago and the River of Tears: Paola Santiago

Tehlor Kay Mejia, 2020

The Language of Spells

Garret Weyr, Katie Harnett, Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr, 2018

Maybe a Fox

Alison Mcghee, Kathi Appelt, 2016

Red Butterfly

A.L. Sonnichsen, 2015