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A House Without Walls by Elizabeth Laird
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge. Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is - lucky not ...Show more
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
In Elizabeth Laird's A Little Piece of Ground, twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. Israeli tanks control the city in response to a Palestinian suicide bombing. Karim longs to play football with his mates - being stuck inside with his teenag ...Show more
Oranges in No-Man's Land by Elizabeth Laird
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
A gripping story of a ten-year-old girl who risks death to make a life-saving dash through war-torn Beirut. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two youn ...Show more
Red Sky in the Morning by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is handicapped and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually, the truth gets out a ...Show more
Secrets of The Fearless by Elizabeth Laird
$17.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
When twelve-year-old John Barr is forced to join the navy his life takes a dangerous turn. As he trains to become a powder monkey on board the mighty HMS Fearless, he soon learns that the ship hides many secrets. Thrust into a sinister world of spies and covert operations, John must go ashore accompanie ...Show more
The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown by Elizabeth Laird
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult
Inspired by award-winning author's Elizabeth Laird's own childhood growing up in post-war London, The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown is a classic coming-of-age story, perfect for fans of The Skylarks' War and I Capture the Castle. Charity Brown's life is about to change - her family have been left ...Show more
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