The Wheel of Surya by Jamila Gavin

I read most of this book on a beautiful train ride down through Switzerland into the Alps, and although the two settings could hardly have been more different - from the heat of India, to the griminess of England, to the snowy purity of the Swiss Alps - it was nonetheless a good read in between admiring the mountains.

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

Captain Thomas Coram founded the Coram Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Children in 1741. But what if there had been a "Coram Man", who claimed to take unwanted children to this hospital, but didn't? This book takes that idea, and sets the scene where two boys at the hospital become friends, find out about their origins, and try to save other children from being sold into slavery. An enjoyable children's novel.