Billy, unimpressed with everything his father does with him, always responds ‘whatever,’ until the world’s ‘hungriest’ tiger comes along and gets his attention.
Friendship
Looking For Alibrandi
Web Of Lies
Giving in to pressure to join a violent gang in London, twelve-year-old Femi is caught acting as a drug courier and confesses to the police, endangering his family’s request for asylum when Femi’s gang attempts to kill his family in retaliation.
Elizabeti’s Doll
When a young Tanzanian girl gets a new baby brother, she finds a rock, which she names Eva, and makes it her baby doll.
Awake And Dreaming
While living a miserable, poverty-stricken life with her young, irresponsible mother, nine-year-old Theo dreams of belonging to a real family but finds a shadowy figure haunting her thoughts.
The Devil In Vienna
Inge, a Jewish girl, and Lieselotte, the daughter of a Nazi, have been best friends since they started school, but in 1938 the thirteen-year-olds find their close relationship difficult to maintain.