Description for How to Be a Boy.
Paperback. Ten edgy stories from the streets of Britain and the US, inspired by the pressures of being a twenty-first century boy. Editor(s): Bradman, Tony. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 5AQ; YFB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 160 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Ten edgy stories from the streets of Britain and the US, inspired by the pressures of being a twenty-first century boy.
Teenage boys are trouble. It’s in the news, on the front page – everywhere you look they’re doing drugs, messing with knives, terrorizing communities. But what if it’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy? What if you’re 13, an OK kid in a bad life? What if you’re more urban poet than ganster rapper? What if deep-down you want to make your mum proud, but you’ve got to live up to your rep, be a bro, beat or be beaten? ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Walker Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781406321319
SKU
KRA0011669
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About
Tony Bradman has been involved with children’s books for over 30 years as a writer for all ages, a reviewer, and an editor of anthologies. He has edited over 30 anthologies of poems and short stories, among them Skin Deep, a collection about racism, Give Me Shelter, a collection about asylum seekers, and Under the Weather, a collection about climate ... Read more
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