The Redemption of Elsdon Bird (Arena Books) (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
by Noel Virtue
Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Bretheren sect. When Dad gets sacked from his city workplace for proselytising and trying to 'save' his workmates, the Birds are forced to leave Wellington and their odd-ball neighbours with whom the lonely, marginalised boy had some affinity, and move to a small, remote town in the north. Here, life might have changed for the better, but instead the family begins to disi...
Eleanor McGraw, a Pony Named Mouse and a Boy Called Fire
by Katharina Marcus