The celebrated performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, ironic, and touching story of a young refugee left behind in London is today more powerful and relevant than at its original publication. Alem is in danger. His father is Ethiopian, and his mother is Eritrean. Their countries are at war, and Alem is welcome in neither. Therefore, Alem looks forward to a holiday in London with his father—until he wakes up to find him gone. What seems like betrayal is actually an act of love, but now Alem is alone in a foreign country and must find his own way. Brilliantly written and with a keen sense of dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's young adult novels: Refugee Boy, Face, Gangsta Rap, and Teacher's Dead.