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Ruby Tanya
[Paperback - 2005]
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Category: Children
Publisher: Corgi Yearling Uk | ISBN: 9780440863984 | Pages: 246
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Asra, is an asylum seeker from an unnamed Eastern European country. Ruby Tanya, is the daughter of a local man who is campaigning against the presence of asylum seekers in his community. During an explosion at the girls' school, a young teacher is killed. Ages 11+ years.

Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939, the eldest of five children. He left the local Secondary Modern School at fifteen to work as a copy holder on the local newspaper. At seventeen he enlisted in the RAF and served for three years, two in Germany. On being discharged he worked as a clerk, engineer and printer until 1969 when he entered college to train as a teacher having obtained five 'O' levels at night-school. His first book 'When Darkness Comes' was written as a college thesis and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1972. In 1980 he gave up teaching to write full time. He likes travelling and visits many schools each year, talking and reading stories to children. He is the secutatry of his local Peace Movement group.Brother in the Landis his first book for Oxford University Press. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in Bradford.Author description taken fromBrother in the Land.

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