Cardboard City

Key Selling Points
Nikola, a young gifted Rom trumpeter, aspires to be a famous musician, but it proves challenging to escape his life of poverty.
Romani life in Europe. Life in a squatter community. Poverty. Musical talent. Run away from home.
There are no recent novels about Romani people for young people. It shows life in a squatter community in Serbia.
The author is Serbian and she won both a Chocolate Lily Award and a BC and Yukon Book Prize.