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Boy Overboard

by Morris Gleitzman

Ages 9–12 Reading age 10 Novel Set in everyday life funnymoving

Jamal wants to play for Australia. First his family must get out of Afghanistan, across a desert and onto a boat that is not seaworthy.

A story about children and families, funny and moving in tone. We would put it with children of 9–12, and at a reading age of about 10 for reading alone.

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