Bibliograph

No safe place, Deborah Ellis

Type

Label

No safe place, Deborah Ellis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

700, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

No safe place

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Deborah Ellis

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG+, 4.5, 6.0, 138922.Reading Counts RC, High School, 4.3, 11, Quiz: 50354.

Summary

Orphaned and plagued with the grief of losing everyone he loves, fifteen-year-old Abdul has made a long, fraught journey from his war-torn home in Baghdad, only to end up in The Jungle -- the squalid, makeshift migrant community in Calais. When an altercation at the soup kitchen ends up with him accidently stabbing a policeman, Abdul has to flee, and in desperation he takes a spot in a small boat heading to England. A sudden skirmish leaves the boat stalled in the middle of the Channel, the pilot dead, and four young people remaining -- Abdul; Rosalia, a Romani girl who has escaped from the white slave trade; Cheslav, gone AWOL from a Russian military school; and Jonah, the boat pilot's ten-year-old nephew. The four of them end up hijacking a yacht and, despite their fear and mistrust, they form a kind of makeshift family. And as the authorities close in on them, they find refuge in an unusual place -- a child's secret cave on the English coast

Target audience

juvenile

Classification