Troublemakers

Shortlisted For The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018 Nominated For The Cilip Carnegie Medal 2018 Longlisted For The Branford Boase Award 2018 In Three Years I Will Be Able To Vote And I Will Still Have Less Power Than I Did At The Moment That I Saw That Email, Which Was Such A Tiny Thing But Look What Happened. Fifteen-year-old Alena Never Really Knew Her Political Activist Mother, Who Died When She Was A Baby. She Has Grown Up With Her Older Half-brother Danny And His Boyfriend Nick In The East End Of London. Now The Area Is Threatened By A Bomber Who Has Been Leaving Explosive Devices In Supermarkets. It Is Only A Matter Of Time Before A Bomb Goes Off. Against This Increasingly Fearful Backdrop, Alena Seeks To Discover More About Her Past, While Danny Takes A Job Working For A Controversial Politician. As Her Family Life Implodes, And The Threat To Londoners Mounts, Alena Starts Getting Into Trouble. Then She Does Something Truly Rebellious. A Searing, Heartbreaking Coming-of-age Tale For Fans Of Lisa Williamson, Jenny Downham And Sarah Crossan. Stewart: 13: Socially clueless genius. Ashley, 14: Popular with everyone but her teachers. Ashley's and Stewart's worlds collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. The Brady Bunch it isn't. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it - he's always wanted a sister. But Ashely is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; "Spewart" could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder. They're complete opposites, but they have one thing in common: they - like everyone else - are made of molecules. In this hilarious and deeply moving story, award-winning author Susan Nielsen has created two narrators who will steal your heart and make you laugh out loud. -- From amazon.com The Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize-winning classic YA novel reissued for a new generation. With an introduction by Malorie Blackman and all-new material exploring the book's controversial history.It was a love story. Me, Gemma and junk. I thought it was going to last forever.Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down. She wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, finally, you have to come down. Melvin Burgess'most ambitious and complex novel is a vivid depiction of a group of teenagers in the grip of addiction. Told from multiple viewpoints, Junk is a powerful, unflinching novel about the effects of drug abuse on teenagers. Once you take a hit, you will never be the same again.'Everyone should read Junk'The Times Meet Stewart. He's geeky, gifted and sees things a bit differently to most people. His mum has died and he misses her all the more now he and Dad have moved in with Ashley and her mum.Meet Ashley. She's popular, cool and sees things very differently to her new family. Her dad has come out and moved out – but not far enough. And now she has to live with a freakazoid step-brother.Stewart can't quite fit in at his new school, and Ashley can't quite get used to her totally awkward home, which is now filled with some rather questionable decor. And things are about to get a whole lot more mixed up when these two very different people attract the attention of school hunk Jared... Tar und Gemma halten es zu Hause einfach nicht mehr aus und hauen ab, um endlich ein Stück vom Leben abzukriegen. In Bristol kommen sie bei Hausbesetzern unter und geniessen ihre Freiheit. Bis eines Tages Lily und Rob auftauchen, zwei Junkies, die auf harten Drogen sind. Auch Tar und Gemma werden abhängig. Bald wird ihr Alltag nur noch davon bestimmt, Geld für den Stoff aufzutreiben. Und sie lügen sich vor, dass sie alles unter Kontrolle haben, dass sie jederzeit aufhören können. Aber es gelingt es ihnen erst nach vielen Rückschlägen, sich von ihrer Abhängigkeit zu befreien. (Quelle: http://www.lehrer.fischerverlage.de/page/mittelstufe 25.08.2010) Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley is the undisputed “It” girl in her class, but her grades stink. Their worlds are about to collide when Stewart and his dad move in with Ashley and her mom. Stewart is trying to be 89.9 percent happy about it, but Ashley is 110 percent horrified. She already has to hide the real reason her dad moved out; “Spewart” could further threaten her position at the top of the social ladder. They are complete opposites. And yet, they have one thing in common: they—like everyone else—are made of molecules. Femten år gamle Alena kjente aldri moren sin, som var en politisk aktivist. Hun døde når Alena var liten og hun har vokst opp med halvbroren Danny og hans kjæreste Nick i Øst-London. Nå trues området av en bombemann som har etterlatt seg eksplosiver i matvarebutikkene. Det er bare et spørsmål om tid før en bombe går av. Med en stadig mer nervepirrende situasjon som bakteppe, forsøker Alena å finne ut mer om sin egen fortid, mens Danny blir ansatt hos en kontroversiell politiker. Og mens trusselen mot London blir stadig større, havner Alena i trøbbel. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS Tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This book features poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak.In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house When she was three, Alena's mother died. Her half-brother raised her in East London, which is being targeted by a lone bomber. What sort of trouble is Alena willing to get into to find out the truth about her mother? When east London is targeted by a bomber, fifteen-year-old Alena, raised by her half-brother and his boyfriend, becomes increasingly rebellious and insistent on learning about her long-dead activist mother Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Set in the early to mid-eighties, this tells the story of two English teenagers, Tar and Gemma, who are drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction