It centres on the characters of Kevin McCoy, who is Catholic, and Sadie Jackson, who is Protestant and how their friendship develops despite the religious bigotry which affects the country they live in. This book is about the discord between the Catholic and Protestant religions.

O'Brien, The Wave - Morton Rhue, The Red Pony - John Steinbeck, The Pearl - John Steinbeck, Stone Cold - Robert Swindells. ‘The Twelfth Day of July’ is a book by Joan Lingard. Hinton, I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith, Postcards from No Man's Land - Aidan Chambers, After the First Death - Robert Cormier, Dear Nobody - Berlie Doherty, The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig, Buddy - Nigel Hinton, Across the Barricades - Joan Lingard, The Twelfth Day of July - Joan Lingard, No Turning Back - Beverley Naidoo, Z for Zachariah - Richard C. The collection includes: The Outsiders - S.E.

Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever.īut will the world around them change too? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults.įrom political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Her first childrens novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh, in the Old Town.

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