AuthorBeverley Naidoo
NarratorLola Ogunbadejo
Duration6h 23m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to London, with their father promising to follow. Abandoned at Victoria Station by the woman paid to bring them to England as her children, Sade and Femi find themselves alone in a new, often hostile, environment. Seen through the eyes of Sade, the novel explores what it means to be classified as 'illegal' and the difficulties which come with being a refugee.
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 1h 30m
Thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro live with their grandmother in a small village in South Africa. When their baby sister Dineo becomes seriously ill, they decide they have to get to their mother to tell her. Their journey to Johannesburg to find her is full of danger and reveals the prejudice and hostility that was an everyday p...
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator N'Jameh Camara
Duration 5h 26m
A thrilling, resonant and inspiring novel about justice, privilege and the power of the young to strive for change. Set in a world where Adam and Leila and their friend Zak live as Nons under the Permitted ruling class. Then, when Adam and Leila's father dies unexpectedly, their mother faces losing her permit to live in the Stone City with deportat...
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 4h 12m
Escaping from his violent stepfather, 12-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. But Sipho has to learn who to trust in the 'new' South Africa.
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