Red Sky in the Morning
No. of pages 272
Published: 2016
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Twelve-year-old Anna is looking forward to the birth of her baby brother. Ben arrives, but is disabled and will never be like other children. Anna loves him with her whole heart, but she finds herself unable to admit the truth of Ben's condition to her school friends. Eventually the truth gets out and leads not to the ridicule Anna expected, but to sympathy and understanding.
An emotional and wonderfully written story by Elizabeth Laird, Red Sky in the Morning was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal.
There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Pan Macmillan .
Elizabeth Laird has been nominated five times for the Carnegie Medal and has won numerous