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For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, Interest age: from c 9 years, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)
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Orion Children's Books
- Paperback Aug 25, 2020 | 9781510105430 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105423 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105447 | RRP $10.99 Buy Now
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Orion Children's Books
- Paperback Aug 25, 2020 | 9781510105430 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105423 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105447 | RRP $10.99 Buy Now
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Orion Children's Books
- Paperback Aug 25, 2020 | 9781510105430 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105423 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Aug 20, 2020 | 9781510105447 | RRP $10.99 Buy Now
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'Truly unforgettable ... deserves to be read and studied by all' - Onjali Q. Rauf, bestselling author of The Boy at the Back of the Class
Secrets from the past are the keys to the future...if two children can find them. Bold adventure, timely themes and breath-taking writing from award-winning author, Sita Brahmachari.
Usha is devastated when her grandmother Kali Ma passes away. Then straight-talking Imtiaz arrives - her new adoptive sister - and the two girls clash instantly. They both feel lost. That is until Kali Ma's ghost appears...with a task for them.
Immy's and Usha's home is full of history and secrets. Many years ago it was The House of the Ayahs - for those nannies who couldn't return to their Indian homeland - and Kali Ma made a promise she couldn't keep. She can't pass on to the other side until the girls fulfil it.
Today, Usha and Immy's over-worked parents run the house as a home for refugees, but eviction threatens. The precious documents that could save them are lost. As the house slowly fills up with ghosts, that only Usha and Imtiaz can see, the girls realise they have more to save than just one grandmother's ghost.
With help from their new friend Cosmo, Usha and Immy must set off on a quest through London, accompanied by two bickering ghosts, working together to find a series of objects that shine a magical light on their family's past and hold the clues to securing their future.
If they can set the secrets of generations free, will they be in time to save their home?
Endorsed by Amnesty International. *Sita Brahmachari is a World Book Day author for 2021 with gorgeous short story, The River Whale!*
More books by Sita Brahmachari
Praise for When Secrets Set Sail
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Grappling with the ghosts of untold stories belonging to women of colour so often and perpetually sidelined, Sita ties the deep echoes of oral herstories of the past with the hidden layers of the world around us in a truly unforgettable way. It is ultimately a story brave enough to bare the truths of layered racisms suffered by so many in Britain past and present, and so deserves to be read and studied by all.
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A testament that sometimes, needing to find where you belong can be right in our own neighbourhoods, and under our very noses.
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I hope teachers and parents will read this story as well as children. An excellent stepping stone into understanding colonialism and displacement. - Jamila Gavin
Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize with her debut Artichoke Hearts and is one of the most interesting and important voices in children's books today. Tender Earth was awarded an honour by the International Board of Books for Young People, and her most recent novel, Where The River Runs Gold, published to great acclaim in July 2019. Sita's books have been shortlisted for the UKLA Book Award, nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and have been translated into many languages around the world. She was the 2015 Booktrust's Writer in Residence and is the current Writer in Residence at Islington Centre for Refugees and Migrants. Sita is also an Amnesty International ambassador. She lives in London with her family.
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