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Troublemakers
Catherine Barter
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Description for Troublemakers
Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick in the east end of London. Now the area is threatened by a bomber who has been leaving explosive devices in supermarkets. It is only a matter of time before a bomb goes off. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 5AP; YFN; YXFM; YXG; YXZ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018 Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing but look what happened. Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick in the east end ... Read more
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018 Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 Longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018 In three years I will be able to vote and I will still have less power than I did at the moment that I saw that email, which was such a tiny thing but look what happened. Fifteen-year-old Alena never really knew her political activist mother, who died when she was a baby. She has grown up with her older half-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick in the east end ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Andersen Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783445240
SKU
V9781783445240
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99-5
About Catherine Barter
Catherine Barter grew up in Warwickshire, and then lived in Norwich for ten years, where she worked in a library, a bookshop, and for an organisation campaigning for the rights of garment workers. After gaining a PhD in American literature, she ditched academia for the lucrative world of independent bookselling. Currently she lives in East London and co-manages Housmans, a ... Read more
Reviews for Troublemakers
A thought-provoking, richly layered YA novel about politics, love, grief and coming of age.
Imogen Russell Williams
Guardian
Wonderfully individual and heartbreakingly real
starred review
Kirkus
A touching, truthful depiction of an unconventional family life... written before London's current summer of discontent but captures the effect of a ... Read more
Imogen Russell Williams
Guardian
Wonderfully individual and heartbreakingly real
starred review
Kirkus
A touching, truthful depiction of an unconventional family life... written before London's current summer of discontent but captures the effect of a ... Read more