Author(s): Elizabeth Laird

Fiction - middle

A gripping story of a ten-year-old girl who risks death to make a life-saving dash through war-torn Beirut. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no-man's land divides the two sides. Only militia men and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill, Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory...