Wall

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Joshua is thirteen. He lives with his mother & stepfather in Amarias an isolated town on top of a hill where all the houses are brand new. At the edge of Amarias is a high wall guarded by soldiers which can only be crossed through a heavily fortified checkpoint. Joshua has been taught that beyond the concrete is a brutal & unforgiving enemy & that The Wall is the only thing keeping him & his people safe. One day looking for a lost football Joshua stumbles across a tunnel which leads towards this forbidden territory. He knows he won't get another opportunity to see what is beyond The Wall until he's old enough for military service & the chance to crawl through & solve the mystery is too tempting to resist. He's heard plenty of stories about the other side but nothing has prepared him for what he finds... The Wall is a novel about a boy who undertakes a short journey to another world to a place where everything he knows about loyalty identity & justice is turned upside down. It is also a political fable that powerfully evokes the realities of life on the West Bank telling the story of a Settler child who finds there are two sides to every story.