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Books with author Joan Lingard

  • A Proper Place: A Kevin and Sadie Story

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Puffin Books, )
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  • Hostages to Fortune

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Gardners Books, April 30, 1995)
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  • Kevin and Saide into Exile

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Penguin USA, July 1, 1995)
    Protestant Sadie and Catholic Kevin have married and "escaped" to London - but will they ever really be free of Belfast and its troubles? In this third book about Sadie and Kevin, Joan Lingard has added an understanding of the strains of marriage to the sombre representation of life in Belfast.
  • Across the Barricades: A Kevin and Sadie Story

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Puffin, Sept. 27, 2016)
    Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells.
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  • The Twelfth Day of July: A Novel of Modern Ireland

    Joan Lingard

    Hardcover (Dutton Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 1972)
    Four Irish children divided by their Protestant and Catholic backgrounds find themselves being drawn into a bitter confrontation
  • Into Exile

    JOAN LINGARD

    Paperback (Penguin, )
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  • The Twelfth Day of July

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Penguin Books, Limited (UK), Aug. 16, 1970)
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  • Tilly and the Badgers

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Orchard Books, Aug. 3, 2006)
    Tilly is shocked to discover that there are badger baiters operating in her small Scottish village. At first her suspicions fall on the new family when she discovers a locked barn in their grounds. But the locked barn turns out to be completely innocent and it takes Tilly's old friend to help her find the real culprits.
  • The Winter Visitor

    Joan Lingard

    Hardcover (Hamish Hamilton, Aug. 16, 1983)
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  • Proper Place

    Joan Lingard

    Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, )
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  • The Eleventh Orphan

    Joan Lingard

    Paperback (Catnip Publishing Ltd, Aug. 1, 2008)
    Eleventh Orphan
  • Across the Barricades

    Joan Lingard

    Mass Market Paperback (Puffin, Jan. 2, 1973)
    Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books
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