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Hoopdriver
Billy Hoopdriver is thirteen years old and tired of being invisible. He lives with his father in a grey council house in Liverpool—just the two of them, locked in silence. His dad used to sell bikes, then worked as a delivery driver, but now he’s out of a job and barely speaks. Billy’s only real connection is with his grandfather,…
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Red Stars
Leningrad, 1941. Twins Viktor and Nadya are twelve years old when Hitler’s Germany declares war on the Soviet Union. All the children in the city are loaded onto special trains that take them to safety from the enemy advance, but due to a mistake Viktor and Nadya end up on different trains and lose track of each other. While Nadya…
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Read Again Nanà
Magnificent illustrations accompany this intense story about the power of words with delicate strokes, which tells even the youngest children how each of us can always make a difference. There is a small village at the top of the mountains, far from everything, living in peace and harmony with nature. The only contact with the world is the newspapers, which…
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