One girls struggle to find her true home.It was meant to be like coming home... All her life, Safis parents have dreamed of returning to Grandpas native village in Crimea. But exchanging their sunny Uzbekistan house for a squalid camp is more like a nightmare. Will the return to a country where no one welcomes them tear Safis family apart, or can this strange land ever become home? A compelling story about the Crimean Tatars struggle to reclaim the land from which they were exiled in the Second World War.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12 years.

This book is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed. This book was published in 2013 by Walker Books Ltd .

Lily Hyde is a new author to the list and an emerging talent. She has written two longer novels, Dream Land and Riding Icarus, both published by Walker, and contributed to Tony Bradman's short story anthology, Give Me Shelter, published by Frances Lincoln.