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A house without walls / Elizabeth Laird ; illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.

A house without walls / Elizabeth Laird ; illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.
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ISBN 9781509886012 (paperback)
Name Laird, Elizabeth author.
Title A house without walls / Elizabeth Laird ; illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.
Published London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2019.
©2019
Description 293 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes "Could losing her home mean finding herself?" -- Cover.
Summary 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 a" lucky not to be living in a refugee camp, lucky to be alive. But it's hard to feel grateful when she's forced to look after her father and brother rather than go back to school, and now that she's lost her home, she's lonelier than ever. As they struggle to rebuild their lives, Safiya realizes that her family has always been incomplete and with her own future in the balance, it's time to uncover the secrets that war has kept buried.
Target audience note 9+ years old.
Subjects Children's stories
Refugees -- Syria -- Juvenile fiction
Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
Families -- Juvenile fiction
Other Names Eldridge, Lucy illustrator.
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