Het werk van Joan Lingard duikt in de complexiteit van het tienerleven, waarbij thema's als identiteit, ergens bij horen en de uitdagingen van het opgroeien worden verkend. Haar verhalen zijn vaak geworteld in specifieke sociaal-historische contexten, wat haar verhalen authenticiteit en relevantie verleent. Lingard heeft een opmerkelijk vermogen om de authentieke stemmen en ervaringen van haar personages vast te leggen, waardoor lezers diepgaande inzichten krijgen in hun innerlijke wereld. Haar vaardigheid in het creëren van resonerende en gedenkwaardige figuren verstevigt haar status als een belangrijke auteur in de kinderliteratuur.
There was no denying that Sadie's mother, coming to see the new baby, would make things uncomfortable. Sometimes it looked as if they never would escape from their cramped, dingy rooms and find a proper place to bring up Brendan, but Sadie and Kevin had been through a lot together already.
Holly is going to spend two weeks in Edinburgh with her dad. He works on an oil rig in the Far East but is due back on leave.Her mum takes her to the station in Glasgow to put her on the train to Edinburgh, hoping to find a nice lady that Holly could travel with on the 45 minute journey. Then Holly spies someone she knows and waves to her. The woman is called Nina Nightingale and she writes books for children. She has just that afternoon given a talk to Holly's class. Holly's mum thinks that she would be an ideal person and, to Holly's horror, approaches her. Nina Nightingale does not like to refuse so they travel together, she and Holly, to Edinburgh, where a surprise awaits.
Continues the story of love born in the violence of Belfast. With Kevin out of a job and forced to leave the little cottage where he had settled with Sadie and the baby, the future looked bleak. Would Kevin find another job?
Robbie loves life in the country, and is appalled to move to Edinburgh. As he comes to terms with a new city, school and friends, Robbie is consoled by the time he spends with his pet tortoise Herman. Then, one afternoon, Herman goes missing.
Englische Lektüre für das 4. und 5. Lernjahr
Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. But will the world around them change too? The first of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books.
In Belfast 1944, Fraulein Berg arrives to teach German at Kate, Harriet and Sally's school. The girls decide that as she's German she must be an enemy and they set to proving it. The story is told by Kate years later, haunted by their silly acts and often wondering what happened to Fraulein Berg.
Mr and Mrs Bigsby of the Pig and Whistle, Stoke Newington already look after ten children. When Constable O'Dowd brings her an 11th orphan he found on the streets, Ma Bigsby is reluctant to take her. But there's something about Elfie, it's the first day of a new century and Ma loves a mystery.
This is one of Joan Lingard's hauntingly powerful Kevin and Sadie novels which set young love against the backdrop of the Irish troubles.
It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, awakens to a new year and two events that are to change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, and the arrival of the British writer Gerald Brenan. This is a tale with touches of true insight into the lives of its literati cast and dark-eyed heroine, from the author of The Kiss.