Gavin, Jamila,

The wheel of Surya / Jamila Gavin. - 287 pages : maps ; 20 cm. - The Surya trilogy ; 1. .

First published in Great Britain 1992 by Methuen Children's Books.

India, August 1947: Fleeing from their burnt-out village as civil war rages in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother, Jhoti. Marvinder has already saved her brother's life once, but now they both face a daily fight for survival. Together they escape across India and nearly halfway around the world to England, to find a father they hardly know in a new, hostile culture.

12+.

ISBN: 9780749747442 (pbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Refugees
Immigrants
East Indians

Dewey Class. No.: 823.92