Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is handicapped and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna expected, but sympathy and understanding.
Elizabeth Laird was born in New Zealand and moved to England with her family when she was three. She went to school in Croydon, studied languages at Bristol and then Edinburgh University, and taught English in Malaysia, Ethiopia and India. She has written many books for children, including Kiss the Dust (winner of the Children's Book Award), Secret Friends (nominated for the Carnegie Medal) and The Garbage King (shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal). She lives with her husband in Surrey.
ISBN:
9780330442909
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
12/10/2006
Category:
(Children's Fiction & True Stories)
Imprint:
Macmillan
Pages:
192 page/s
Stock:
To order
Price:
$13.99 AUD
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