A House Without Walls
Elizabeth Laird
Illustrated by Lucy Eldridge & Maria Brzozowska
Ages 9 to 11
23 January 2020Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.
Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is – lucky not to be living in a refugee camp, lucky to be...
Details
23 January 2020320 pages
9781509828241Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
[H]umane and empathetic . . . Not only eye-opening, important and topical, but a vivid, emotionally involving, nail-biting read . . .an effective call to action.Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times Book of the Week on Welcome to Nowhere
A muscular, moving, thought-provoking book from an award-winning writerGuardian on Welcome to Nowhere
Not only does it explain how the war in Syria began in as clear a way as I have ever heard but [Elizabeth Laird] makes her characters lovable, loathable - and believable. They are children of war but not defined by it . . . fascinating and sing[s] with truth.Alex O'Connell, The Times Book of the Week on Welcome to Nowhere
