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Item Details
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STONE COLD
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| By: |
Robert Swindells |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0140362517 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780140362510 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 1995 |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down a killer and that she's prepared to use herself as bait. |
| Synopsis: |
Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she's prepared to use herself as bait...Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice, for Brother In The Land and for Room 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold, and also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; and The Last Bus. |
| Reader Age: |
From 12 |
| Key Stage: |
UK School Key Stage 3 |
| US Grade: |
Seventh Grade and over |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Puffin |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Carnegie Medal 1993.
Winner of LA Carnegie Medal 1993. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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Book Level : 4.3
Interest Level : Middle Yrs
Points : 4
Quiz number : 200741
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