Nisha's war / Dan Smith.
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TextPublisher: Frome, Somerset : Chicken House, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 359 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781912626755; 1912626756Subject(s): Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Juvenile fiction | England, Northern -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Ghost stories.Summary: Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold northern coast. When Amma falls gravely ill, Nisha is left to face her formidable grandmother alone. Grandmother's rules are countless, and her Anglo-Indian grand-daughter is even forbidden from climbing the old weeping tree. But when a ghost child beckons Nisha to sit under its boughs, and promises her Amma's life in return for three truths, its pull proves irresistible ...
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Junior Fiction | JF SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111084068038 |
11+ years.
Malaya, 1942. Nisha's home is destroyed by war and she and her mother, Amma, flee to her father's ancestral house in England, perched on a cliff top on the cold northern coast. When Amma falls gravely ill, Nisha is left to face her formidable grandmother alone. Grandmother's rules are countless, and her Anglo-Indian grand-daughter is even forbidden from climbing the old weeping tree. But when a ghost child beckons Nisha to sit under its boughs, and promises her Amma's life in return for three truths, its pull proves irresistible ...
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