April 1958. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His father is a stranger to him it's cold and even the Jamaican food doesn't taste the same as it did back home in Maroon Town. But his parents have brought him here to try to make a better life. So Leonard does his best not to complain to make new friends to do well at school - even when people hurt him with their words . . . and with their fists._x000D_How can a boy so far from home learn to enjoy his new life when so many things count against him?