num_pages: 116
description: 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 mans land divides the two sides. Only militiamen and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey across no mans land to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.
language: English
title: Oranges in No Man's Land
titlecomplete: Oranges in No Man's Land
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, School, Lebanon, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1163
places: Lebanon
publisher: MacMillan Children's Books