The Other Side of Truth
Author(s): Beverley Naidoo
Twelve-year-old Sade and her brother Femi have to flee Nigeria when their mother is killed and their father won't stop criticizing the military rulers. The woman paid to bring them to London as her children abandons them and they are alone in a new, often hostile, environment.
Product Information
Winner of LA Carnegie Medal 2001 and Carnegie Medal 2001. Shortlisted for Smarties Book Prize 2000 and Smarties Book Prize 9-11 Category 2000.
Beverley Naidoo is well-known for her first two children's books, set in South Africa - JOURNEY TO JO'BURG and CHAIN OF FIRE. She is from South Africa but has lived in England for many years. Beverley lives in Bournemouth.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Puffin Books
- : 01 April 2000
- : 198mm X 129mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Beverley Naidoo
- : Paperback
- : 600
- : 823
- : From 9 to 99
- : 240
- : Fiction; Life skills & personal awareness, general studies; Human geography / peoples of the world