| Title | : | No Safe Place |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Deborah Ellis |
| Release | : | 2010-09-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Books, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Coming of Age for Young Adults, Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults |
| Size | : | 619183 |
| Finalist for the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle -- the squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. When an altercation at the soup kitchen ends up with him accidently stabbing a policeman, Abdul has to flee, and in desperation he takes a spot in a small boat heading to England. 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 four of them end up hijacking a yacht and, despite their fear and mistrust, they form a kind of makeshift family. And as the authorities close in on them, they find refuge in an unusual place -- a child's secret cave on the English coast. |
