A House Without Walls
By Author / Illustrator
Elizabeth Laird
Genre
Real life
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
ISBN
9781509880720
Format
Hardback
Published
22-08-2019
Synopsis
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 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.
Reviews
fabiola
The first three chapter are kind of written as a diary and is explaining everything in the main character's view. She is a very strong and independent girl who wants everyone to be treated fairly and with respect. She also speak Arabic and has a friend called Farah.
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