| No Safe Place Contributor(s): Ellis, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0888999747 ISBN-13: 9780888999740 Publisher: Groundwood Books OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 710 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.05" W x 7.06" (0.45 lbs) 208 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 138922 Reading Level: 4.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, 15-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle a squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais, France. He takes a spot in a small, overloaded boat heading to England and full of other illegal migrants and a secret stash of heroin. 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 story of their frantic and hazardous Channel crossing makes this a novel of high adventure and heart-stopping suspense." |