Many thanks to all of those fellow writers who have been so kind to comment on early drafts of this novel, in particular Tony Bradman who always gives such wise advice.
Derek Abra gave me the opportunity to view Count Dracula, one of the “little ships” that went to Dunkirk from Hayling.
Anqa Butt, Immigration and Legal Officer at the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture, gave valuable advice on immigration law and the plight of asylum seekers in Britain today.
To Anne Clark and Margot Edwards of the Anne Clark Agency, many thanks for bringing Hidden to America and to everyone at Holiday House, especially Mary Cash, huge thanks for taking our book and bringing it to the young people of the States.
Many thanks to all the Hayling Islanders who have always made me feel so welcome. When I cross Langstone Bridge from the mainland to the Island it is as though all the stresses of life slip away and the color blue spreads around me.
None of this would have been possible without the enduring and loyal support of my husband, Rafael, who shares my love of Hayling Island.
Copyright © 2011 by Miriam Halahmy
About Miriam Halahmy copyright © 2016 by Miriam Halahmy
First published in Great Britain 2011 by Meadowside Books
The rights of Miriam Halahmy to be identified as the Author of the Work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
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ISBN 978-0-8234-3722-1 (ebook)w
ISBN 978-0-8234-3723-8 (ebook)r
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Halahmy, Miriam, author.
Title: Hidden / Miriam Halahmy.
Description: First American edition. | New York : Holiday House, [2016] | “First published in Great Britain 2014 by Meadowside Books.” | Summary: Fourteen-year-old Alix is faced with a huge moral dilemma when she helps pull an illegal Iraqi immigrant from the incoming tide on the coastal
English island where she lives.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015050746 | ISBN 9780823436941 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Family problems—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. |
Iraqis—England—Fiction. | Racism—Fiction. | Refugees—England—Fiction.
| Immigrants—Fiction. | England—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.H12825 Hid 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2015050746