O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells. In 1998 Joan was awarded an MBE for distinguished service to children's literature. The series begins with THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide.

It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. She is particularly well-known for her quintet of young adult titles about Kevin and Sadie and their love across the religious divide during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. by Joan Lingard ( 269 ) £3.99 £7.99 The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingards influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. The two manage to strike up some kind of relationship when Buddy's mum walks out - until Buddy realises that his dad is involved in something more serious than he suspected. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.īuddy has a hopeless father who is an ageing rocker, interested only in Elvis and bikes, and living on the fringes of the under-world. Buddy is a moving and totally convincing account of a boy's faltering relationship with his father, with an atmospheric 1980s setting.

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