New Windmills
5 total works
"My name is Chandra. And I'll not let it be forgotten."Eleven-year-old Chandra is about to be married to a boy five years older than her. Her parents are delighted; her father has chosen well for her, and Chandra is sure that they will be happy together, What could possibly go wrong to spoil their happiness?But when Chandra arrives to live with her new family, far away in the deserts of Rajasthan, she soon learns that things are far from how she expected. Faced with terrible rejection and hardship she feels her worth and identity slipping away. But she won't be broken and is determined to escape.
Nicholas Highgate, separated from his parents during the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, is smuggled to the mainland by his Chinese nurse and disguised as a Chinese boy. As he grows to manhood he witnesses the atrocities and deprivations of the Japanese occupation and is himself drawn into the Communist resistance activities. The book ends when the Japanese surrender and Nicholas is reunited with what remains of his family.
New Windmills 2000 Contemporary Fiction Pack
by Martin Booth, Nigel Hinton, Malorie Blackman, Robert Swindells, David Almond, and Frances Mary Hendry
Published 15 March 2000
