Barrington Stoke Teen: Dumb Chocolate Eyes Award-winning author by Kevin Brooks (author) and Emma Shoard (illustrator)

A gritty teen drama. Cassidy has always been a strange friend, one you wouldn’t ever want to get on the wrong side of, but the day he decides to trap rats will change everything… Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+

A brutally honest and effective story about adolescent boredom and destructive friendships, from Carnegie medalist Kevin Brooks. It was one of those childhood friendships of convenience – two lads in the same village who go to the same school. But then Cassidy gets it into his head that they should set traps for the rats in his garden, and things start to go very, very wrong. A gritty teen drama. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781781124512

Publisher

Barrington Stoke Ltd

Date published

May 7th, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.0; Upper years; 0.5 points

Other details

72 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks, author of the young adult novels Martyn Pig, Lucas, Kissing the Rain, Candy, and The Road of The Dead, was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon. After school, he moved to London and tried to become a rock star. The book he would most like to have written is Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. His most precious memory is of sitting on a wall when he was ten years old, wondering where thoughts go when you die. He decided that they float up into space and become fuel for the sun. His advice for aspiring authors? ‘Read as much as you can, and write what you want to write, not what you think other people want you to write. And don’t give up.’

You can find more about Kevin on his MySpace page and via Bebo at www.bebo.com/kevinbrooksauthor