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THIS BOOK IS
CURRENTLY
UNAVAILABLE
Young Adult Fiction
Book Details:
Price:
€6.34
Binding: pb
Pages: 192
Size: 196x130 mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-635-5
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-635-9
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Rights held:
World, all languages.
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Green Flag: For readers aged 12+. Young adult fiction
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A group of teenagers, adrift from their families, scraping together a makeshift home in the House that Everyone Forgot. According to Johnner, it's like camping, like being on your holidays all the time. But then Johnner's just a kid. They find out soon enough, all of them, just how harsh life is when you're young, poor and homeless. The reality of living rough in a Dublin squat faces them with more difficult challenges in their already troubled lives.
Extract available: read some of this book now ...
Samantha
The Author Speaks
About Sisters:
Writing Sisters ... no way!
About Call of the Whales:
Researching Call of the Whales
Links
Siobhán's personal website
Wikipedia page for Siobhán
Teaching Resources: free to view and download
Teaching guide for Breaking the Wishbone from O'Brien Teaching Guides for Second Level Schools.
List of all available resources
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Praise for Breaking the Wishbone
'A very tough story but one which you don't want to put down' Mary Finn, RTE Guide
'Breaking the Wishbone is the novel as documentry ... it does not seem like a novel at all: the result is a venture of high risk, but one the succeeds magnificently' Robert Dunbar, The Irish Times
'This is a hard-hitting novel dealing with a situation which is becoming increasingly common among young people today.' Joan Lombard, Northern People
'This is exactly how young homeless people are, how they sound, how they react, how they cope with their situation, living in a culture permeated with drugs, deprivation, violence, and still managing to make some sort of a life for themselves and to find some hope. The book is very funny and at the same time heartbreakingly sad, but above all it is absolutely accurate.' Sr Stanislaus Kennedy (President, Focus Ireland)
'It is at times heartbreakingly sad and very funny, but wholly credible.' Children's Books in Ireland
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