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The Edge
Alan Gibbons
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Description for The Edge
Paperback. Crackling with tension a novel about a mother and son desperate to start a new life. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5AM; YF; YX. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 200 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Winner of the Angus Book Award, THE EDGE is crackly with tension. How will this mother and son escape their abuser and start a new life? We've got to go. Now. It's early morning and Danny's mother is at his bedside, urging him to get up. They're on the run from Chris, his mother's boyfriend, a violent man who beats them both up, and won't let them go. Chris pursues Danny and his mother from London to the north, where they take refuge with Danny's grandparents. But ... Read more
Winner of the Angus Book Award, THE EDGE is crackly with tension. How will this mother and son escape their abuser and start a new life? We've got to go. Now. It's early morning and Danny's mother is at his bedside, urging him to get up. They're on the run from Chris, his mother's boyfriend, a violent man who beats them both up, and won't let them go. Chris pursues Danny and his mother from London to the north, where they take refuge with Danny's grandparents. But ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842550946
SKU
V9781842550946
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Ref
99-99
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 The Edge
This is a fast and compelling 'must read' that is disturbing in ways that is bound to make teenagers confront important issues like racism and endemic violence. I can't recommend it highly enough. Books for Keeps ...a brilliant thriller for 11 to 16 year olds. ...Indeed it is as if he takes such potential cliches ... Read more