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Lenny, a Parsee girl lamed by polio, watches from her family's house in Lahore as Partition in 1947 turns her ayah's circle of admirers against each other.
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Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
In the Shadow of the Banyan
Raami, a seven-year-old girl from Cambodia's royal family, is driven out of Phnom Penh with her family when the Khmer Rouge take the city in 1975.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Aleksandar, a boy in Višegrad who loves stories and his grandfather, flees to Germany with his family when the Bosnian war comes, and later goes back to look for a girl he once saved.
When I Lived in Modern Times
In 1946 Evelyn Sert, a twenty-year-old Jewish hairdresser from Soho, sails to Palestine and is caught up in Tel Aviv and the struggle for a new state.
Palace Walk
In Cairo at the end of the First World War, the merchant al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his wife and children with an iron hand at home while spending his nights in music and drink.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
We Need New Names
Darling, ten, roams a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise with her friends, stealing guavas, until she goes to live with her aunt in Michigan.
Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.
The Issa Valley
Thomas, a boy growing up with his grandparents in a river valley in the Lithuanian countryside after the First World War, learns about nature, faith and death.
Mister Pip
On Bougainville during the civil war of the 1990s, Mr Watts, the island's last white man, starts teaching the children from Great Expectations, and thirteen-year-old Matilda falls into it.
Ellen Foster
Eleven-year-old Ellen tells how she got through her mother's death and her father's neglect in rural North Carolina, and how she went looking for a new family and took its name.