Year 6

Ghost has never thought of athletics as a sporting option – basketball is his thing. But now, after challenging a sprinter to a race at the local track, he’s won himself a place on an elite running team. To keep it, he just needs to stay out of trouble. That’s easier said than done when Brandon Sanderson is in your face every day at school, you can’t forget your painful past, and when you want a new pair of trainers so badly you’d do anything to get them .

William Beech is evacuated from London during World War 2.  The village in which he is placed is very different to anything he has experienced before.  William is emaciated and withdrawn.  He is placed with Tom Oakley (Mr Tom) and a caring relationship develops with Mr Tom helping William to read and write.  

A gripping tale of conflict and survival.

Eleven-year-old Salva is forced to flee on foot when his village comes under attack. Braving every imaginable hardship – including killer lions and hungry crocodiles – he is one of the ‘lost boys’ travelling the African continent on foot in search of his family and a safe place to stay.

Nya goes to the pond two times a day to fetch water. It takes her eight hours. But there is unexpected hope, as these two stories set in Sudan – one unfolding in 2008 and one in 1985 – go on to intersect in a moving way.

A boy is wrongfully sent to a brutal camp (Camp Green Lake), where the camp warden and her staff force the children in their care to mysteriously dig holes all day long in the desert. Their rehabilitation is questioned, as they think something sinister is involved.