The Whole of My World
10 best books like The Whole of My World (Nicole Hayes): The Scholar, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back, Once, After, Now, Then, The Beekeeper of Aleppo, My Life as a Hashtag, Untidy Towns
| Author | Dervla McTiernan |
| ISBN | 0751569348 |
When DS Cormac Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbles across the victim of a hit and run early one morning, he is first on the scene of a murder that would otherwise never have been assigned to him. The dead girl is carrying an ID, that of Carline Darcy, heir apparent to Darcy Therapeutics, Ireland’s most...
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For...
Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
| Author | Bri Lee |
| ISBN | 1760295779 |
'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner
EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they find them'. If a single punch kills someone because of their thin skull, that victim's weakness...
Once by Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanage he lives in to save his Jewish parents from the Nazis in the occupied Poland of the Second World War.
Everybody deserves to have something good in their life. At least Once.
Once I escaped...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0670075442 |
I really like the style, the story written from the perspective of a child with a different way of looking at things. Plenty of excitement and unexpected. ONCE upon a time there was a 10 year old Jewish boy called Felix whose parents were taken away by the Nazis. THEN, his close friend and ally, Zelda, was...
Now is the third shocking, funny and heartbreaking book in Morris Gleitzman's Second World War series.
Sometimes facing the past is the bravest act of all...
ONCE
I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.
THEN
I found out what the Nazis did to his...
| Author | Morris Gleitzman |
| ISBN | 0141324821 |
In Then - Morris Gleitzman's heartbreaking children's novel set during the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War - Jewish orphan Felix and his best friend Zelda have been captured and are on the way to a concentration camp, unless they manage to escape . . .
A little hope goes a...
| Author | Christy Lefteri |
| ISBN | 1984821210 |
The unforgettable love story of a mother blinded by loss and her husband who insists on their survival as they undertake the Syrian refugee trail to Europe.
Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo--until...
| Author | Gabrielle Williams |
| ISBN | 1760113689 |
I'd been warned - in French, no less. By a tram-riding, mermaid-swaying, wolf-eaten, peace-sign flipping friend. I knew she wouldn't be happy if I stayed out here by the pool, with Jed's nail tracing the length of my neck.
But I didn't want to go inside. I didn't want another drink. I wanted to...
| Author | Kate O'Donnell |
| ISBN | 0702259829 |
Seventeen-year-old Adelaide is sick of being expected to succeed on other people’s terms. She knows she just has to stick it out at school for one more year and then she’ll be free. Instead, she runs away from her fancy boarding school back to her sleepy hometown to read and dream.
But there...
