By Kevin Brooks
Publish yr note: First released 2005
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Kevin Brooks is on the most sensible of his YA online game during this "provocative, suspenseful" (Booklist) novel. Now in a dynamic new Kevin Brooks repackaging!
When Joe meets sweet, it sort of feels like a standard boy-meets-girl situation. They chat over espresso, she supplies him her quantity, and he writes her a tune. yet then Joe is drawn into Candy's international --- an international of gear, violence, and desperation. because the darkish fact approximately Candy's lifestyles emerges, Joe unearths himself dealing with genuine threat at each twist and switch. quickly Joe's conflicting feelings start to reflect Candy's, and he is aware that falling in love simply can be definitely worth the fight. This intoxicating story of heartache, hazard, and desire will enthrall youngster readers.
Literary Awards
Manchester e-book Award Nominee for Longlist (2006)
North East Teenage booklet Award Nominee (2006)
Silberner Lufti (2006)
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Sample text
As he imagines it, he feels it. She stops swimming, pulls off the goggles, and looks up. To the woman down below, he is simply the man up above, staring. Accidentally he touches the glass. It is cool. He presses his cheek, his nose, his mouth to the glass. He takes a deep breath and exhales long and slow, fogging the glass, and for a moment everything, even the swimmer, is gone. He is standing at the glass waiting for his life to begin. ” Cecelia the housekeeper asks. ” “You’re just standing there, staring.
It is cool. He presses his cheek, his nose, his mouth to the glass. He takes a deep breath and exhales long and slow, fogging the glass, and for a moment everything, even the swimmer, is gone. He is standing at the glass waiting for his life to begin. ” Cecelia the housekeeper asks. ” “You’re just standing there, staring. I’ve been here fifteen minutes and you haven’t moved. You’re not wearing your morn ing clothes, and you don’t have those headphones on. ” He can’t decide whether to say anything, whether to tell her about last night.
Covered with the creepy crawl of the emergency room, he scrubs himself, washing off the night. There are a couple of electrodes still attached. The BandAid on his hand slides off and is sucked down the drain. He is trying to put it behind him, and yet it plays in his head—the lights, the people, the pickling disinfectant smell, the God boy coming down. He pictures the nurse getting home in the morning, glad to have missed a long night alone. ” She was a good nurse, a damned good nurse. He pictures her house, the kitchen filled with crocheted pot-holders, knitted afghans, hens and chicks on the windowsill.