Boys Don't Cry
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Published:28th Apr '11
Should be back in stock very soon
A hard-hitting teenage novel from the acclaimed author of the bestselling Noughts and Crosses sequence.
In Boys Don't Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood.
You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results.
In Boys Don't Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood.
You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby.
You're happy to look after it, just for an hour or two. But then she doesn't come back - and your future suddenly looks very different.
Malorie's dramatic new novel will take you on a journey from tears to laughter and back again.
An extraordinary book, and truly is Malorie Blackman at her best * Guardian *
Blackman's emotional intelligence is such that Boys Don't Cry should be read aloud in every secondary school * The Times *
Her writing at its best, creating characters and a story which, once read, will not easily go away * Independent *
Blackman grapples with contemporary issues without ever letting them overwhelm the story and characterisation. A winner * Financial Times *
This is an adroit investigation of family relations, very clearly portrayed * Daily Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780552548625
Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 20mm
Weight: 225g
320 pages