by Elizabeth Laird · Hodder Children's Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340752845
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«Secret Friends» is Elizabeth Laird's young adult novel about friendship and bullying, published by Hodder Children's Books in paperback (in English).
Rafaella arrives at a new school and finds it hard to make friends: her name sounds odd, her ears stick out, and she feels different. Lucy is the first to mock her and nickname her Earwig, but a secret friendship grows between them that brings the bullying and its consequences to light.
Special edition for the National Year of Reading with a new introduction by the author. Finalist for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award.
Recommended for young readers from around 9 years old who want a realistic story about school, self-esteem, and social pressure.
Elizabeth Laird is a British writer of children's fiction and travel. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages.
