Torn pages
By: Sally Grindley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780747595052
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); Juvenile fiction; Brothers and sisters; Social conditions; Orphans; Fiction; Grandmothers; Hope
Description: Liddy and brother Joe are orphaned by AIDS in their small African community, and together they struggle to bring up their little sister. Even though their own grandmother makes life difficult for them, they have their mother's journals to keep them going. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.