Against the Odds
Author: Marjolijn Hof

Recommended award-winning novel

An extraordinary novel about a young girl's response to her aid-worker father's disappearance in a war zone.  Sometimes.' Kiki's father, a doctor, is always putting himself in danger by travelling to faraway war zones.  No matter how much she tries, Kiki can't convince him not to go.

When her father actually does go missing, and as her mother gets more and more worried, Kiki decides she has to try and improve the odds of her father coming home, the only way she can. A powerful, sad, yet funny book about what to do when something you've always feared becomes all too real.

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