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Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie #2) by Joan Lingard
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Originals
Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Sold ...Show more
Across the Barricades - Puffin Teenage Fiction Series by Joan Lingard
Category: Teenage/Young Adult Fiction
In these terrifying days in Belfast, no Protestant girl like Sadie could go out with a Catholic boy like Kevin without resentment or even murderous violence flaring up around them. They were made for each other, they knew that, but what would happen if they went on seeing each other?
Into Exile (Kevin and Sadie #3) by Joan Lingard
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The\Originals Ser.
The third of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books.Protestant Sadie and Catholic Kevin have married and "escaped" to London - but will they ever really be free of Belfast and its troubles? In this third book about Sadie and Kevin, Joan Lingard has added an understanding of the strains of ...Show more
Kevin and Sadie: The Story Continues by Joan Lingard
Category: Children's Books
Offers a collection of three "Kevin and Sadie" titles: "Into Exile", "A Proper Place", and "Hostage to Fortune". Each book presents a stand alone story and, together with Across the Barricades and The Twelfth Day of July, makes up the full story of two children, Kevin and Sadie, whose love crosses the b ...Show more
Me and My Shadow by Joan Lingard
Category: Fiction
This is the story of a family dealing with a tough and intriguing situation after fifteen-year-old Emma discovers that a girl who looks very much like her is in fact her half-sister.
Oxford Playscripts: Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard
Category: Plays & Scripts | Series: Oxford Modern Playscripts
Kevin is Catholic. Sadie is Protestant. In Belfast they are supposed to be enemies - so what chance do they have when they fall in love? This title offers new, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfill the Framework objecti ...Show more
Tell the Moon to Come Out by Joan Lingard
Category: unmapped
1939 Spain is a country torn apart by civil war. Nick has come from Scotland in search of his father - who left the family home three years ago to fight in Spain. He never came back. Spain is a dangerous place for a boy with no identity papers. Nick has been told to trust no one. But then ill, and ...Show more
The Twelfth Day of July (Kevin and Sadie #1) by Joan Lingard
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: The Originals
The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a ...Show more
Tilly and the Wild Goats by Joan Lingard
Category: Childrens
Tilly and her mother live in a small village in Scotland. When their landlady wants their cottage back, they find themselves homeless. Then Tilly discovers that the local wild goats are going to lose their home to a developer. Tilly is determined that none of them should end up homeless. Can she save th ...Show more
Twelfth Day of July by Joan Lingard
Category: Children's
It all started with a trip to Protestant Belfast by Kevin and his Catholic friends to daub slogans on a wall. But the paint-splashing turned into something very dangerous. The only good to come out of the reckless trip was that it brought Kevin into contact with Sadie Jackson and changes his life.
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