'Kiss the Dust' by Elizabeth Laird. Rrp £3.99. Winner of the Children's Book Award.
For Tara, the world is turned upside down when her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement forces the family to flee Iraq. They escape over the mountains to Iran, but even there they are not safe. Tara's father spends the last of their savings on air tickets to London. But what will happen to them now that they are refugees, without a country and without a home?