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Author: Anthony McGowan
Publisher: Oxford Children's
Imprint: Oxford Children's
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 19.90cm
Weight: 0.154kg
ISBN: 9781382055529
ISBN 10: 1382055528
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 01 October 2024
Recommended Age: From 10 to 13 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Carnegie medal winner McGowan is superb at stories about children who do not have all the advantages. In this succinct and poignant rite-of-passage story he gets inside the head of Matthew, a school outcast whose mother is not always up to the job of mothering. It carries you irresistably with him from first to last."" --Sunday Times ""This is an emotionally charged story that unflinchingly tackles very challenging themes of poverty, neglect and bullying. Yet it is also full of hope as Matthew finds that friendship and change can be found in unexpected places. Matthew is brave in his choices, though he perhaps doesn't entirely think them through - but this of course makes them all the more relatable and understandable."" --BookTrust ""A multilayered tale of loss and renewal with elements both topical and universal."" --Kirkus Reviews on Dogs of the Deadlands"
""Carnegie medal winner McGowan is superb at stories about children who do not have all the advantages. In this succinct and poignant rite-of-passage story he gets inside the head of Matthew, a school outcast whose mother is not always up to the job of mothering. It carries you irresistably with him from first to last."" --Sunday Times ""This is an emotionally charged story that unflinchingly tackles very challenging themes of poverty, neglect and bullying. Yet it is also full of hope as Matthew finds that friendship and change can be found in unexpected places. Matthew is brave in his choices, though he perhaps doesn't entirely think them through - but this of course makes them all the more relatable and understandable."" --BookTrust ""A multilayered tale of loss and renewal with elements both topical and universal."" --Kirkus Reviews on Dogs of the Deadlands
Author Information
Anthony McGowan was born in Manchester in 1965 and his experiences at school gave him the stories and characters he's been writing about ever since. Most of his books are a mixture of comedy and serious ideas and issues, such as bullying and mental illness. McGowan now lives in London with his wife, two children and a dog called Monty. He has won many awards for his writing, including the Carnegie Medal, the oldest and most prestigious award for children's literature, for Lark.
