· Where I Belong, by Gillian Cross, is about a Somali girl who gets discovered by a fashion designer to become a model. The book starts off with Geri, a . Thirteen-year-old Khadija, a Somali refugee, becomes a model for a famous fashion designer to help her family back home, while the designer's daughter Freya and fourteen-year-old Abdi, whose family Khadija lives with in London, try to protect her. Gillian Cross has been writing children’s books for more than thirty years. She received degrees in English from Oxford and Sussex Universities in the United Kingdom. She lives in Dorset, United Kingdom. Tell the Publisher! I'd like to read this book on KindleCited by: 1.
Where I Belong. Gillian Cross. Holiday House, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. Also embroiled in the mess is Abdi, a fourteen-year-old boy coming to terms with the mysterious disappearance of his father, and Freya, the totally unfashionable daughter of Sandy Dexter, trying to find her place in her mother's world of haute couture. Gillian Cross's exciting new novel grapples with issues of identity, trust, and family. Where I Belong by Gillian Cross. Mary Hoffman enjoys a tale told in three voices. Mary Hoffman. Fri 9 Apr EDT. G illian Cross is a brave writer. Her Carnegie medal-winning novel.
Thirteen-year-old Khadija, a Somali refugee, becomes a model for a famous fashion designer to help her family back home, while the designer's daughter Freya and fourteen-year-old Abdi, whose family Khadija lives with in London, try to protect her. by Gillian Cross ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, A contemporary international thriller is woven together from alternating first-person perspectives. Freya, daughter of a British fashion designer who wants to create a line based on Somali beauty and exotic mystery, Khadija, a recent Somali teenage immigrant to London, and Abdi, of Somali. Also embroiled in the mess is Abdi, a fourteen-year-old boy coming to terms with the mysterious disappearance of his father, and Freya, the totally unfashionable daughter of Sandy Dexter, trying to find her place in her mother’s world of haute couture. Gillian Cross’s exciting new novel grapples with issues of identity, trust, and family.
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