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Oranges In No Man's Land
Elizabeth Laird

Oranges In No Man's Land

Macmillan Children's, 2007 (2007)

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A gripping story of a ten-year-old girl who risks death to make a lifesaving dash through war-torn Beirut.Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been living in the bomb-ravaged city of Beirut with her granny and her two younger brothers. The city has been torn in half by civil war and a desolate, dangerous no man's land divides the two sides. Only militiamen and tanks dare enter this deadly zone, but when Granny falls desperately ill Ayesha sets off on a terrifying journey to reach a doctor living in enemy territory.

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