AuthorAlex Wheatle
NarratorZoe Grisedale
Duration6h 53m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
New from the winner of the Guardian Children's Book Award: Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much needed light on what can be an unsettling life - and the consequences that can follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard. Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage - just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle's most moving and personal novel to date.
Author: Alex Wheatle
Author Alex Wheatle
Narrator Noel Arthur, The Author
Duration 4h 14m
Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugar cane plantation for endless hot days, fearing the vicious whips of the overseers. Then one night he learns of an uprising, led by the charismatic Tacky. Moa is to be a cane warrior, and fight for the freedom of all the enslaved people in the nearby plantations. But be...
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