Shouting at the Stars

by David Belbin

Published 2 September 2005
Layla is thrilled. Her first album is selling well and she is playing in concert halls across Europe. But not everyone likes her music. When a heckler starts turning up at her concerts, everything quickly turns into a nightmare. Her bodyguard decides to sort out the heckler. Can her bodyguard be trusted? And has the heckler really gone? Or is he still out there, shouting at the stars?

Republished as a new edition, this book is one of the Shades 2.0 series. This book is perfect for reluctant teens who still want an exciting, unpatronising story that is relevant to their interests and concerns, but who don't want to read a longer novel. With a length of only 6,000 words, and filled with drama, this story will appeal to all reluctant teen readers.

Layla is a young singer who is just hitting the big time: she has even got her own bodyguard. With all of the excitement of her growing fame comes the eerie presence of an unknown heckler who begins to follow all her performances. But who is more dangerous, the heckler or her bodyguard?

In the same style as the Shades 2.0 series, this book tells a fast-paced story but is much shorter than the Shades, allowing for less-able readers to still experience the gripping story but with much simpler language and a larger font. The excitement of the Shades series is still there in these shortened versions of the dramatic, enticing stories.