Lost Riders - Rilegato

Laird, Elizabeth

 
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Taken to work in a strange country, Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari...

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Descrizione del libro

A hard-hitting and intensely emotive novel from the Carnegie-shortlisted author of THE GARBAGE KING.

L'autore

Elizabeth Laird has been nominated four times for the Carnegie Medal and has won both the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award. She and her husband divide their time between Richmond, Surrey and Edinburgh.

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Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0330452096 ISBN 13:  9780330452090
Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2009
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