Oranges in no man's land / Elizabeth Laird.

London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2025.

115 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2006.

Interest age level: 7+.
Juvenile.

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.

9781035034666 (pbk)

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