Secret Friends

Whats the good in keeping secrets?\r\n\r\nSecret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird. \r\n\r\nRafaella doesnt find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her Earwig, until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets cant be kept any longer.\r\n\r\nShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Childrens Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Lairds moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people.\r\n\r\n[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well Scotsman\r\n\r\n[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty The Sunday Times