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The thread that connects us

Ayaan Mohamud

£8.99

A story of shared blood and bad blood, endings and beginnings Safiya has struggled to pick up the pieces of her family since her dad left them and moved to Somalia. She refuses to trust in love, despite wishing she could fall for boy-next-door Yusuf. And then her dad moves back to town with his new family, shattering her life all over again. Halima doesn’t want to move to England. She resents her stepdad for dropping her in a strange new life with a new language to learn – replacing her friends with bullies who set out to shame her. When the girls are thrown together at school, it’s hate at first sight. But as they uncover life-changing secrets from their parents’ past, they begin to realize. What if the key to all their problems lies in their sisterhood?

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Publish Date: 04/07/2024
ISBN: 9781803704517 Category: Children's Books Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children's / Teenage general interest: Islam, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism, Children's / Teenage social issues: Migration & refugees
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New from the author of the acclaimed You Think You Know Me. “A powerful new voice.” The Guardian

A story of shared blood and bad blood, endings and beginnings…

Safiya has struggled to pick up the pieces of her family since her dad left them and moved to Somalia. She refuses to trust in love, despite wishing she could fall for boy-next-door Yusuf… And then her dad moves back to town with his new family, shattering her life all over again.

Halima doesn’t want to move to England. She resents her stepdad for dropping her in a strange new life with a new language to learn – replacing her friends with bullies who set out to shame her.

When the girls are thrown together at school, it’s hate at first sight. But as they uncover life-changing secrets from their parents’ past, they begin to realize…What if the key to all their problems lies in their sisterhood?

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Weight 348 g
Dimensions 198 × 130 × 26 mm
Author

Mohamud, Ayaan

Publisher

Usborne Publishing Ltd

Imprint

Usborne Publishing Ltd

Cover

Paperback

Pages

396

Language

English

Edition

|Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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