WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS TEEN & YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019 Angry, stirring and tender, this is a bold, questioning exploration of the lengths to which well go for the people we love. From the Costa Childrens Book Award winning author of When Mr Dog Bites and The Bombs That Brought Us Together. Bobby Seed has questions. Whats another word for thesaurus? How can I tell Bel I want her as my girl friend, not my girlfriend? How much pain is Mum in today? Has she taken her pills? And sometimes, secretly, Why us? Bobbys little brother Danny has questions too. Will Bobby let him have Rice Krispies for dinner? And can he stay up late on the computer? And why wont Mums stupid illness just GO AWAY? But its Mums question for Bobby that could turn everything on its head. Its the Big One. The Unthinkable One. If Bobby agrees, he wont just be soothing her pain. Hell be helping to end it. Would he? Could he? Perfect for readers of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Titel: The Weight of a Thousand Feathers
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London
Ver�ffentlichungsdatum: 2018
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 140887153X
ISBN-13: 9781408871539
Bindung: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good

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A bold, irreverent and tender novel about a young carer from the Costa Children's Award winning author of When Mr Dog Bites and The Bombs That Brought Us Together

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Brian Conaghan lives and works in the Scottish town of Coatbridge. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, and worked as a teacher for many years. His novel When Mr Dog Bites was shortlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Bombs That Brought Us Together won the 2016 Costa Children's Book Award, The Weight of a Thousand Feathers won the 2018 Irish Book Award for Teen/YA Book of the Year, and We Come Apart, a verse novel co-authored with Carnegie Medal-winner Sarah Crossan, won the 2018 UKLA Book Award. Cardboard Cowboys, Brian's first middle-grade novel, published in 2021 and is full of his trademark heart, humour and crackling dialogue. Swimming on the Moon is his second middle-grade novel.
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