Imprint: Yearling
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780440866152
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £6.99
Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrible happens...
A funny and sad story, told completely in verse.
Imprint: Yearling
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9780440866152
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 12mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £6.99
Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers
One of the most original and moving books of the year . . . an absolutely remarkable book
Inspired writing . . . it flows like melted butter and glistens as it goes . . . Blackman knows her verse forms and uses them to brilliant effect
It is funny and poignant and Blackman's use of language is wonderfully economic. This is a masterpiece of writing and a book for all ages
It soon develops into a cautionary tale about the way that both a friendship and a child's originality is destroyed by peer pressure. What makes it even more unusual is that it is told out of the mind of the boy who brought about the destruction. Blackman threads humour into the tragedy and (just) succeeds in giving us something to hope for