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Winner of the CILIP Amnesty Honour 2017.
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017.

Perfect for fans of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS. This is a beautiful, vivid and deeply moving story about a refugee boy who has spent his entire life living…

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An emotional children’s story that reminded me of ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, but in this case it a young boy is inside the fence of a refugee camp and a young girl is on the other side of the fence. His story is told in his own words, which adds to the substance of the book and its value as a statement of our time, which makes it even more poignant.

That people, including children, are still being held in these terrible situations needs to be talked about and this book is an excellent way of understanding…

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