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R
eared in the teeming streets of India
at the turn of the century, the orphan
Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World',
a cheeky imp with an endless interest
in the extraordinary characters he
meets daily. One of them, an old
Tibetan lama, sets him on the path
that will lead him to travel the Great
Trunk Road, and become a spy for the
British.
N
ine year old Bruno knows nothing
of the Final Solution. All he knows is
that he has been moved from a
comfortable home in Berlin to a
house in a desolate area where there
is nothing to do. Until he meets
Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange
parallel existence on the other side
of the adjoining wire fence and who,
like the other people there, wears a
uniform of striped pyjamas.
A
fter being released fromprison and
winning South Africa’s first free
election, Nelson Mandela presided
over a country still deeply divided by
fifty years of apartheid. His plan was
ambitious if not far-fetched: use the
national rugby team, the Springboks
to embody and engage a new South
Africa as they prepared to host the
1995 World Cup.
Invictus
John Carlin
Penguin
273 pages. 10,00 euros
Age 16-18
O
ne misty autumn dawn in a quiet
fishing port in northwest Spain, the
body of a sailor washes up in the
harbour. Detective Inspector Leo
Caldas is called in from police
headquarters in the nearby city of
Vigo to sign off on what appears to
be a suicide. But details soon come to
light that turn this routine matter into
a complex murder investigation.
Death on a
galician shore
Domingo Villar
Abacus
370 pages. 9,95 euros
Age 16-18
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
Puffin
422 pages. 10,00 euros
Age 12-14
The boy in the
striped pyjamas
John Boyne
Black Swan
214 pages. 12,75 euros
Age 12-14
I
n 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina is
preparing for art school. But the Soviet
secret police barge violently into her
home, deporting her along with her
mother and younger brother. They are
being sent to Siberia. Lina's father has
been separated from the family and
sentenced to death in a prison camp.
Lina fights for her life and documents
their experience in her art and writing.
Between shades
of gray
Ruta Sepetys
Penguin
344 pages. 10,25 euros
Age 14-16
S
ometimes it's pretty hard to tell
them apart... My family and the
animals, that is. I don't know why my
brothers and sisters complain so
much. With snakes in the bath and
scorpions on the lunch table, our
house, on the island of Corfu, is a bit
like a circus. So they should feel right
at home...
My family
and other animals
Gerald Durrell
Penguin
307 pages. 10,50 euros
Age 14-16