Windrush child

by Benjamin Zephaniah

ISBN: 9780702302725

Published: 2020

In this heart-stopping adventure, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us what it was like to be a child of the Windrush generation. "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting the story of their remarkable lives' " - The Times Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him, it's cold and even the Jamaican food doesn't taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life, so Leonard does his best not to complain, to make new friends, to do well at school - even when people hurt him with their wordsand with their fists. How can a boy so far from home learn to enjoy his new life when so many things count against him? 'Zephaniah pulls no punches in his depictions of the racism that Leonard suffers both at school and in the streets in a powerful, moving account of family and fitting in' iNews 'An invaluable story for any young...