num_pages: 128
description: Hannah Rasi is a teenage Muslim girl from a strict but loving family that has recently moved from a small village to a big town. At the same time as her youngest brother, Susu, contracts near-fatal meningitis, she meets an older boy, Sami, and fallsin love. Hannah and Sami meet secretly after school in the ruined gardens of the old Roman city. In the end Hannah says 'goodbye' to Sami and, though sad, she finds that her decision has strengthened her.
language: English
title: Forbidden Ground
titlecomplete: Forbidden Ground
ratings_count: 52
series: Terry Deary's Terribly True Stories
publisher: Puffin