Web of Lies

By Beverley Naidoo

Book Overview

Sequel to THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH.
Two years after their flight from Nigeria 14-yr-old Sade her younger brother Femi and her father are living in a council flat in London waiting for their claim for asylum to be approved. Sade is upset when Femi is drawn into a violent possibly drug-dealing gang and even more upset when their father doesn't seem to notice. He's too taken up with his new friend Mrs Wallace a refugee from Sierra Leone. But when Femi is arrested for murder and the gang set fire to their flat the family has to pull together to get through this most difficult time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141314664
• ISBN13: 9780141314662
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Puffin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.0" x 0.0" x 0.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

gang violence must be stoped

Sade and Femi are sent to London to live with their uncle, for safety reasons after their mom is killed in a drive by shooting. This is all about the trouble the family faces when they are sent to London. The brother falls into the wrong crowd. Will this family ever be safe?