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- Hodder Children's Books
For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Fiction, Children's Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues: divorce, separation, fam
A heartbreaking story guaranteed to get into your head and your heart.
"That's where I should have started the story. I sat for ages in the dark, with my head in a swirl. My thoughts were spinning round and round, like clothes in a washing machine. Bruising, I thought. Alcoholic. Social worker. Foster care. Scum. School. Measles. Cow. Mobile phone. Danielle. That was the beginning. But I'd forgotten that until now. I mean, it's amazing what you can forget ..."
It all started when Gramma died. And then Jonathan and Julie had only apples for dinner. Apples, an alcoholic mother, and one big bruise on Julie's face. Jonathan had no choice but to pack their schoolbags and run away, far from Ma ...
Until the police catch up with them and take Julie away and lock up Jono. And through his questioning, Jonathan must finally confront the real truth.
A powerful tale of one boy's mission to protect his younger sister ... no matter what the cost.
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Praise for Bruised
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The central voice is extremely engaging. - Bookseller
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The characterisation is sharp and strong, the settings very skilfully etched, the storyline compelling ... - Robert Dunbar
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A richness and complexity. - INIS
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very difficult to put down. The reader is drawn in... and needs to know how it ends. - Carousel
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Believable and heart-rending story. - Independent on Sunday
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**** - Books For Keeps
Siobhan Parkinson
SiobhA n Parkinson is a novelist and one of Ireland's best-known writers for children. In 2010 she was appointed Ireland's first Children's Laureate and has written dozens of novels for children, young people and even a couple for adults. Her most recent are Bruised and its companion novel, Heart Shaped, for young teenagers. She is also a translator (from German) and she runs Little Island, a small children's publishing house. She lives in Dublin with a nice husband and a large computer. She is visually impaired, so she 'reads' mostly audiobooks.
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