Boom Boom

(Paperback)

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Osaik is an eight-year-old boy. He is charming and has an unusual ability to hear things no one else hears. But his world is thrown into disarray when a debilitating disease takes his mother from him.

Despite his grief, he has to find a way of saving his little sister, Eghe, from the same disease. Alongside his dad, and Kompa his dog, they begin a race to get her all the help she needs.

For ages 9+.

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'In Jude Idada's Boom Boom, agony and its relief, anxiety and serenity, despair and hope pulsate on the pages and bring into very vivid relief the human capacity to bear pain and overcome it. Boom Boom gives Sickle Cell Anaemia immense clarity in an absorbing and engulfing style' - Judges' Report, Nigeria Prize for Literature

Author Bio

Jude Idada is an award-winning screenwriter, actor, poetand playwright. Boom Boom is the first of his books to bepublished outside of Nigeria.