Under the Weather

by Tony Bradman

  GIVE ME SHELTER

  Edited by Tony Bradman

  Sabine is escaping a civil war...

  Danny doesn’t want to be soldier...

  What has happened to Samir’s family?

  Here is a collection of stories about children from all over the world who must leave their homes and families behind to seek a new life in a strange land. Many are escaping war or persecution. All must become asylum seekers in the free lands of the West. If they do not escape, they will not survive.

  These stories, some written by asylum seekers and people who work closely with them, tell the story of our humanity and the fight for the most basic of our rights – to live. It is a testimony to all the people in need of shelter and those from safer countries who act with sympathy and understanding.

  REMEMBERING GREEN

  Lesley Beake

  It is the year 2200. Global warming has covered most of the Earth in sea. The Tekkies, secure on their fortified island, survive on dwindling resources, but they need fresh water – rain. A sacrifice is needed, something wild. But one African girl with her lion cub, Saa, still carries the old knowledge and is determined to thwart the Tekkies.

  LINES IN THE SAND

  New Writing on War and Peace

  Edited by Mary Hoffman and Rhiannon Lassiter

  Talented writers and illustrators from all over the world have come together to produce this book. They were inspired by their feelings about the conflict in Iraq, though the wars covered in this collection range from a 13th-century Crusade through the earlier wars of the 20th century to recent conflicts in Nigeria, the Falklands, Kosovo and South Africa, right up to what was happening in Iraq in 2003.

  With over one hundred and fifty poems, stories and pictures about war and peace, Lines in the Sand offers hope for the future.

  All profits and royalties to UNICEF

  FALCON’S FURY

  Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters

  Illustrated by Naomi Tipping

  Hidden treasure ... a secret crime ... the precious eggs of a bird of prey... When Jan and Marie discover who is stealing and selling the eggs of a peregrine falcon, they suddenly find themselves in danger. Only the ancient legend of Stokey Castle can help them – and the falcon will show them the way.

  Andrew Fusek Peters’ and Polly Peters’ exciting new novel revisits the Klecheks, a family from the Czech Republic newly settled in Shropshire. Teenage brother and sister Jan and Marie are soon unravelling villainy and mysteries, but they will need even greater courage and ingenuity to face what is about to happen.

  ANGEL BOY

  Bernard Ashley

  When Leonard Boameh sneaks away from home to do some sightseeing, little does he know that his day out is about to turn sinister. Outside Elmina Castle, the old fort and slave prison, groups of street kids are pestering the tourists, and before Leonard knows it, he is trapped in a living nightmare.

  Set in Ghana, this chilling chase adventure is one you’ll never forget.

  CHRISTOPHE’S STORY

  Nicki Cornwell

  Illustrated by Karin Littlewood

  Christophe has a story inside him – and this story wants to be told. But with a new country, a new school and a new language to cope with, Christophe can’t find the right words. He wants to tell the whole school about why he had to leave Rwanda, why he has a bullet wound on his waist and what happened to his baby brother, but has he got the courage to be a storyteller? Christophe must find a way to break through all these barriers, so he can share his story with everyone.

  FIRST GIRL

  Gloria Whelan

  When a second daughter is born to Chu Ju’s family, they decide that the baby must be sent away. Chinese law dictates that a family may have only two children, and tradition dictates that one of them must be a boy. Chu Ju knows that she could never allow her baby sister to go, so she sets out in the middle of the night on a remarkable journey to find a home of her own.

  JOURNEY OF DREAMS

  Marge Pellegrino

  Helicopters slash through the air like machetes, soldiers patrol the roads hunting down guerrillas ... for the peaceful highlanders of Guatemala, life has become a nightmare. Tomasa’s mother has to go into hiding with her eldest son, and, when they see their house razed to the ground and the villagers massacred, Tomasa, Manuelito and baby Maria set off with Papa on a perilous journey north to find Mama and Carlos. This is Tomasa’s story of how her family survives the Guatemalan army’s ‘scorched earth’ campaign, and how their love, loyalty to each other and Papa’s storytelling keep them going on their harrowing search for refuge in the United States.