Secret Friends
Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
"It's crazy, starting at a new school. For days you feel so new and lost it's as if you've wandered into a foreign country where you can't speak the language." This haunting story about Rafaella, the new girl at school who finds making friends hard, is a stunning piece of writing. With her strange name and sticking out ears she's different from the rest. Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig'. Until a secret friendship starts, full of warmth and mystery... Paperback
Product Information
Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 1997 and LA Carnegie Medal 1997.
"Beautifully written, evokes strong emotions" -- Good Book Guide "Conveys so much, so simply and so well" -- The Scotsman
Elizabeth Laird's family is Scottish but she was born in New Zealand and grew up in Surrey. After studying languages at Bristol & Edinburgh Universities, she worked in Ethiopia and India where she met her husband, David McDowall, a writer on Middle Eastern affairs. They have two children.
General Fields
- :
- : hodch
- : hodch
- : 0.08
- : 23 April 1997
- : 198mm X 134mm X 6mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Elizabeth Laird
- : Paperback
- : Jason Cockroft
- : 823.914
- : 96
- : b&w illustrations