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Beverley Naidoo's Top Book Recommendations

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Recommended by Beverley Naidoo, and 1 others.

Beverley NaidooThe story of a young girl, Ayesha, living in war-torn Beirut. Her father is away and her mother has been killed. Ayesha and her younger brother live alone with their grandmother. (Source)

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Azzi In Between

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Recommended by Beverley Naidoo, and 1 others.

Beverley NaidooA book inspired by true accounts of the experience of refugee children. (Source)

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The Journey

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.

From the author: The Journey is actually a story about many journeys, and it began with the story of two girls I met in a refugee center in Italy. After meeting them I realized that behind their journey lay something very powerful. So I began collecting more stories of migration and...
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Recommended by Beverley Naidoo, and 1 others.

Beverley NaidooA book about kindness, hope and resilience in the face of the turmoil of war. (Source)

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The tale of Mufaro's two daughters, two beautiful girls who react in different ways to the king's search for a wife - one is aggressive and selfish, the other kind and dignified. The king takes on disguises to learn the true nature of both girls andof course chooses Nyasha, the kind and generous daughter, to be his queen. less
Recommended by Beverley Naidoo, and 1 others.

Beverley NaidooIt is an African Cinderella with John Steptoe’s illustrations adding classical beauty. (Source)

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Once

Felix, a Jewish boy in Poland in 1942, is hiding from the Nazis in a Catholic orphanage. The only problem is that he doesn't know anything about the war, and thinks he's only in the orphanage while his parents travel and try to salvage their bookselling business. And when he thinks his parents are in danger, Felix sets off to warn them--straight into the heart of Nazi-occupied Poland.
To Felix, everything is a story: Why did he get a whole carrot in his soup? It must be sign that his parents are coming to get him. Why are the Nazis burning books? They must be foreign...
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Recommended by Simon Smith, Beverley Naidoo, and 2 others.

Simon Smith@mr_o_connor Great book. It was in my top twenty. (Source)

Beverley NaidooThe first in a series of children’s novels about a boy called Felix, a Jewish orphan, who is caught in the middle of the Holocaust (Source)

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