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Gray: Ostrich Boys
Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey. Stealing the urn that contains the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out to travel 261 miles from Cleethorpes on the English east coast to the tiny hamlet of Ross in southern Scotland.
After a depressing and dis[piriting funeral they [...]
Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a ‘colourless’ member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that’s as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social [...]
Adam and Salim are on 2 different sides in the Crusades, but they find friendship in this unlikely place. Elizabeth Laird creates a vivid picture of medieval Palestine, you can almost smell the rotting stink around the European camp.
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Reviews:
Crusade is a gripping tale of two boys from different countries [...]
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is [...]
Scarlett is in trouble and excluded from yet another school, this time her mother is at her wit’s end so sends her to rural Ireland to stay with her father and new stepfamily. In this totally alien setting a teenage boy on a horse, a local loch and a tree as well as the unconditional [...]