Ten-year-old Ayesha navigates life in war-torn Beirut, where her father has left to find work and her mother has been killed in a shell attack. Living with her grandmother and two younger brothers in a bomb-ravaged city divided by civil war, Ayesha must find the courage to cross the deadly no man's land that separates the two sides when her grandmother desperately needs help. Elizabeth Laird's powerful story captures one girl's determination and bravery amid the horrors of conflict.
