It is a fantastic read, which brought a tear to my eye, and will leave me talking about it until the author and illustrator release their next wonderful book together. But as the summer reaches its height, her mother's obsession with the shark threatens to engulf them all. There she finds what her mother is passionate about - a small blue fox and the story of the different migrations become entwined.

Together with her mom and the crew of other scientists, the girl sets off for an engaging, challenging, and dangerous trip. The fox will leave a deep trace in Leila’s deep and kind soul and become a symbol of more valuable things.

When Leila leaves the UK to see her Mum for the first time in six years, she never imagined they would be tracking a blue fox together, or that the journey would help her discover her Mum’s story and reasoning as they both heal from their own migration. She also clearly addresses the role social media plays in such narratives, looking at the way information is spread and the way that people are motivated and spurred into action. Between them, her children's books have won numerous awards including Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Historical Association Young Quills Award, and the Blackwell's Children's Book of the Year. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Producing another middle grade in the same format with a feel of such a special and collectible series is a celebration of how much creating quality literature for this age range must mean to them both.

She's a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and lives in Oxford with her husband and cats, in a house between a river and a forest. It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. Leila is a Syrian refugee and after six years of living apart from her Professor mother, she is leaving her new home in London to be reunited with her mother in Norway. Based on the true story of an Arctic fox who walked from Norway to Canada in seventy-six days, a distance of two thousand miles, this is a compelling, emotional and beautifully illustrated tale.This is the second middle grade pairing of wife and husband, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston. This experience has been fantastic primarily for the children, the school and also for me (professionally). Happy at home in Croydon with older cousin Mona and her Amma, attending a local secondary school, she heads off to Norway for a long overdue visit with her mother during the summer holidays. Over the last few years I have run an Open University Reading for Pleasure Teachers group, a National Writing Project group and worked as an Elklan tutor and as a tutor in teacher education. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.