Secret Friends - Softcover

Laird, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529015405 ISBN 13: 9781529015409

Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books, 2019

Synopsis

What's the good in keeping secrets?

Secret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird.

Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig', until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets can't be kept any longer.

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Laird's moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people.

'[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well' Scotsman

'[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' The Sunday Times

About this title

Review:

'[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well'

Source: Scotsman

'[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' Source: The Sunday Times

About the Author:

Elizabeth Laird is the multi-award-winning author of several much-loved children's books including The Garbage King, The Fastest Boy in the World and Dindy and the Elephant. She has been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal six times. She lives in Britain now, but still likes to travel as much as she can.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1529015405
• ISBN 13: 9781529015409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Harris Alleanna