Elizabeth Laird (2)

Elizabeth has lived in many parts of the world, including Ethiopia, Malaysia, Iraq and  Lebanon and her books have been inspired by her life’s great adventures. She has won the Children’s Book of the Year Award and has been shortlisted for the Costa Award, the Blue Peter Award and the Carnegie Medal. Her books include ‘The Witching Hour’ set in seventeenth-century Scotland and ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’: about a ten-year-old girl in war-torn Beirut. Her latest novel ‘ The Prince Who Walked with Lions’ (publishing March 2012) is a sweeping epic about an Abyssinian prince torn from his mountain home and sent to an English boarding school, where he is taught to be a gentleman Based on a true story it has been described as “A captivating and emotional read.”
Primary 7, Secondary 1