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Title:
OSTRICH BOYS
By:
Keith Gray
Format:
Paperback
List price:
£8.99
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£6.56
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ISBN 10:
0099456575
ISBN 13:
9780099456575
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Publisher:
RANDOM HOUSE CHILDREN'S PUBLISHERS UK
Pub. date:
3 July, 2008
Pages:
368
Description:
Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway.
Synopsis:
'It's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.' Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway. After a depressing and dispiriting funeral they feel taking Ross to Ross will be a fitting memorial for a 15 year-old boy who changed all their lives through his friendship. Little do they realise just how much Ross can still affect life for them even though he's now dead. Drawing on personal experience Keith Gray has written an extraordinary novel about friendship, loss and suicide, and about the good things that may be waiting just out of sight around the corner ...
Key Stage:
UK School Key Stage 3
Publication:
UK
Imprint:
Definitions
Prizes:
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Short-listed for Booktrust Teenage Prize 2009 Short-listed for Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books: Older Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2009 Short-listed for Costa Children's Book Award 2008
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THE CHAIN (PB)
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THE LAST SOLDIER (PB)
THE RETURN OF JOHNNY KEMP (PB)
THE RETURN OF JOHNNY KEMP (PB)
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THE TRICK (PB)
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ACCELERATED READER INFORMATION
Book Level :
4.1
Interest Level :
Upper Yrs
Points :
9
Quiz number :
215076
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