Almond, David

Liam meets Oliver, a foster son from Liberia who claims to be a refugee from the war, and becomes involved in Oliver's dark past when he runs away from his foster home to prevent being sent back to a sure death in Liberia.

In a series of interconnected stories, a boy describes his life growing up in the English urban district of Felling.

Liam meets Oliver, a foster son from Liberia who claims to be a refugee from the war, and becomes involved in Oliver's dark past when he runs away from his foster home to prevent being sent back to a sure death in Liberia.

Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.

Shy, often inarticulate Joe Maloney finally begins to understand his strange dreams about a beautiful tiger after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to his village with a traveling circus.

Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.

Having escaped from their orphanage on a raft, Erin, January, and Mouse float down into another world of abandoned warehouses and factories, meeting a strange old man and an even stranger girl with webbed fingers and little memory of her past.

Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.

Helped by a very long ladder, a young boy is astonished when he tries to prove the moon is just a big hole in the sky.

Despite observing his father's illness and the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family and friends, living in England in 1962, still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for the future.