The Prisoner of BhopalTim WalkerLabel: Andersen Press LtdDescription: Amil has always dreamed of working at the modern space-age pesticide plant in Bhopal India where he lives. Instead on his tenth birthday he is torn from his family and taken to work for Mr Kumar and his cruel son Jalesh in their dilapidated printing factory. There hidden in a trunk he finds a secret First World War journal. As its pages come to life they reveal not only why Amil is there but that he and the journal’s author – his great-grandfather Sanjiv - share a magical gift: they can read the wind. Its purpose remains a mystery until one terrible night the pesticide plant leaks poison gas into the air above Bhopal . . .£1 from every copy sold will be donated to the Bhopal Medical Appeal
