Suggested reading age: 9+. Ruby finds school challenging. No one there understands what it's like to have a brother with special needs. Her parents and older sister have little time for her, and life is a bit lonely. Safa has recently arrived from war-torn Syria. Her last school was bombed, causing her mother to seek refuge in Ireland after a difficult and dangerous journey across Europe. Safa is lonely too. Her mother is finding it difficult to cope, her father is missing, and she has no friends is this strange new country. 

This is a book about kindness and compassion and learning that despite our differences we all need good friends.

Author: Sinead Moriarty.

Read by: Melanie McHugh.

Run time: 5 hours 5 minutes.

Number of CDs: 1.

DAISY on demand

This DAISY book is made to order and is non-returnable, unless faulty.