928 Miles from Home

Fourteen year old Calum Brooks has big dreams. One day, he''ll escape this boring life and write movies, proper ones, with massive budgets and A-list stars. For now though, he''s stuck coping alone while his dad works away, writing scripts in his head and trying to stay ''in'' with his gang of mates at school, who don''t like new kids, especially foreign ones. But when his father invites his new Polish girlfriend and her son, Sergei, to move in, Calum''s life is turned upside down. He''s actually sharing a room with ''the enemy''! How''s he going to explain that to his mates? Yet when Calum is knocked down in a hit and run and breaks both legs, everything changes. Trapped at home, Calum and Sergei slowly start to understand each other, and even work together to investigate a series of break-ins at the local community centre. But Calum can''t help feeling like Sergei''s hiding something. Is he really trying to help, or cover up his own involvement in the crime? 928 Miles from Home is a powerful new story from the multi-award-winning author of Smart and A Seven-Letter Word , Kim Slater.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Slater, Slater Kim
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781529009224
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-0922-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Kinder/Jugendliche: Familienromane, Kinder/Jugendliche: Gegenwartsliteratur, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Rassismus und Multikulturalismus, Englische Bücher / Kinderliteratur, Jugendliteratur, Kinder- u. Jugendliteratur / Jugendliteratur / Ab 12 Jahre, Englische Belletristik / Kinder- u. Jugendliteratur, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, Kriminalroman / Kinderliteratur, Jugendliteratur, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, Rassismus / Kinderliteratur, Jugendliteratur, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Alternative Family, Polish; Immigrant; Brexit; Poland; Crime; Detective; Mystery; racism; bullying; outsider; discrimination; friendship; latchkey kids, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Blended Families