The Door of No Return

The #1 New York Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Writing'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'oDreams are today's answers for tomorrow's questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father's father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable - a sudden death - occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi's dreams may be the key to his freedom...

Product details

• Authors: Kwame Alexander, Alexander Kwame
• Publisher: Andersen Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 14
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781839133244
• ISBN: 978-1-83913-324-4
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 34 mm
• Series: Door of No Return
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Africa, Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 12 years, Poetry (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement, JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse, JUVENILE FICTION / Places / Africa