No Safe Place Paperback / softback
by Deborah Ellis
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Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book AwardOrphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle -- the squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. When an altercation at the soup kitchen ends up with him accidently stabbing a policeman, Abdul has to flee, and in desperation he takes a spot in a small boat heading to England.
A sudden skirmish leaves the boat stalled in the middle of the Channel, the pilot dead, and four young people remaining -- Abdul; Rosalia, a Romani girl who has escaped from the white slave trade; Cheslav, gone AWOL from a Russian military school; and Jonah, the boat pilot's ten-year-old nephew.
The four of them end up hijacking a yacht and, despite their fear and mistrust, they form a kind of makeshift family. And as the authorities close in on them, they find refuge in an unusual place -- a child's secret cave on the English coast.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
- Publication Date:14/10/2010
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- ISBN:9780888999740
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada
- Publication Date:14/10/2010
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- ISBN:9780888999740