Fourteen-year-old Alem Kelo adjusts to life as a foster child seeking asylum in London, while his Eritrean mother and Ethiopian father work for peace between their homelands in Africa.

• ISBN: 9780747550860
• Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin
• Published: 2001 , Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Themes: Foster Homes, Peace, Refugees, struggling, War
• Descriptors: England (UK), Ethiopia, Europe, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
• No. of pages: 224