num_pages: 252
description: After the murder of their mother, twelve-year-old Sade and her younger brother are smuggled out of Nigeria by their journalist father to escape the corrupt military government and growing violence. They are sent to their uncle in London, but when they arrive, he is missing and they are abandoned, passed between foster homes. Their father escapes to England to find them -- but he will be sent back to Nigeria unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.A Silver Medal winner of England's Smarties Book Prize, Beverly Naidoo's new novel explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom wtih eloquence and stunning realism.
language: English
title: The Other Side of Truth
titlecomplete: The Other Side of Truth
genres: Childrens, Young Adult, Novels, Middle Grade, Africa, School, Historical Fiction, Nigeria, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 2809
places: Nigeria
series: The Other Side of Truth
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Carnegie Medal, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award
publisher: HarperTrophy