The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

For Ages 8-12 Years.

Winner of the 2000 Carnegie Medal.

Twelve-year-old Sade's journalist father is a vocal critic of the corrupt military government in Nigeria. When Sade's mother is murdered, her family sees in bloody detail the violent risks that come with exposing the truth. 

Her father arranges for Sade and her younger brother to be smuggled to their uncle in London for safety. On the streets of London, the plans fall apart and they are abandoned, passed from foster home to foster home. They try to contact their uncle but he is missing. They then learn that their father  has escaped to London to find them—but he will be sent back to Nigeria, unless Sade can find a way to tell the world what happened to her family.

Awarded the 2000 Carnegie Medal and chosen by young readers as the recipient of England's prestigious Smarties Silver Medal, Beverly Naidoo's THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH explores the issues of family, exile, and freedom with the same eloquence and stunning realism of her award-winning JOURNEY TO JO'BURG.

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