Series:

Puffin Teenage Books S.

3 total works

Cover of Dosh

Dosh

by Robert Swindells

Published 25 November 1999
""We're Push. We practically run this town, and if you think a bunch of kids are going to change that, you're crazy."" When the students at Cottoncroft Comprehensive form Pull, a group dedicated to challenging Push's thuggery, things start to get nasty. But then Push try a new sinister racket - and Pull have the chance to catch them in the act...This Carnegie-Medal winning author deals vividly but sensitively with peer pressure, violence, drugs and crime. Hardback 200pp

Cover of Wrecked

Wrecked

by Robert Swindells

Published 4 October 2001
The lives of four sixteen-year-old boys are affected by a growing fondness for alcohol. Mark is the son of a domineering father, MD of a large brewing company. The other three pay local winos to obtain drink for them. All the boys are awaiting their GCSE results and the action unfolds in the course of a day or two either side of these results being published, culminating in tragedy when the boys' paths converge at the club owned by Mark's father.

Cover of No Angels

No Angels

by Robert Swindells

Published 3 July 2003

Cold, hungry, lonely and scared, Nikki soon discovers that life on the streets of London is even tougher than she thought it would be. Nick, though, is used to scraping together a living for himself and his family. And whilst neither of them means to break the law, they soon find that isn't as easy as it sounds.

Two teenagers, a hundred years apart, offer a compelling insight into homelessness in this powerful novel from the author of Stone Cold.

What are the themes?

Prejudice, courage, survival, family, loyalty, homelessness and injustice. Cross-curricular links to history, geography and PSHE are strong.

Teaching points

The intriguing and thought-provoking parallel narratives of Nikki in the present day and Nick in the mid-nineteenth century make this an ideal text for Key Stage 3 offering excellent cross-curricular links. Linguistic discussion is provoked by the extensive use of historical dialect.