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Raining Fire
Alan Gibbons
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Description for Raining Fire
Paperback. Fast-paced and topical, a tense real life thriller about gun crime in an inner city gangland, by prize-winning author, Alan Gibbons. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: YFD. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 246.
The gun is the coward's fist. The gun is power.
Alex and Ethan are growing up on an estate where there are just two choices: sport or crime.
Ethan is selected for a football training programme in the US, his chance to escape the gangs that terrorise his neighbourhood. But Alex is drawn into an explosive feud with a gun at its heart.
In this gripping and absorbing real life thriller, Alan Gibbons explores the complex issue of gun crime, and the far reaching consequences it can have.
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780621272
SKU
9781780621272
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alan Gibbons
Alan Gibbons is a full-time writer and a visiting speaker and lecturer at schools, colleges and literary events nationwide, including the major book festivals. He lives in Liverpool with his wife and has four grown up children. He travels globally and is known the length and breadth of the country for his high profile Campaign for the Book and school ... Read more
Reviews for Raining Fire
The characters in this moving and fast-paced story are real and the dilemmas they face believable. There are no easy solutions here, but courage and integrity shine through.
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Adventurous, breath-taking and realistic
Isaac, Bolingbroke Academy, Year 8
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Fast-paced and straight-talking, Alan Gibbons' writing always does justice to the moral complexities of ... Read more
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Adventurous, breath-taking and realistic
Isaac, Bolingbroke Academy, Year 8
Books For Keeps
Fast-paced and straight-talking, Alan Gibbons' writing always does justice to the moral complexities of ... Read more