A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Decades)
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Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. But Billy knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he does know about animals. His only companion is his kestrel hawk, trained from the nest, and, like himself, trained but not tamed, with the will to destroy or to be destroyed. This in not just another book about growing up in the north - it's as real as a slap in the face to those who think that orange juice and comprehensive schools have taken the meanness out of life in the raw working towns.
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Format:Hardcover
This book shows the harsh and cruel life of a 15 year old boy in a neighbourhood where he is expected to go into crime. His only way of keeping out of the bad life is to find another hobby. He succeeds in this when he finds a kestrel and single-handedly trains it to perfection. This book is written in an amazing style be an amazing scriptwriter. Barry Hines captures the imagination with this brilliant book. Barry Hines is just the man to write this, him having come from a background like that of what Billy has in the book.
Format:Hardcover
This book helped a load with writing essays in class, and effectively helped me get my A* in GCSE Literature; I definitely recommend this book. :)
Format:Paperback
This heart-wrenching tale following a day in the life of a boy on a 1960s Yorkshire council estate is a powerful study of the hopelessness of society's poor and unloved. Billy Casper, at 15, already has a future mapped out for him down the pit and, rejected by his family, friends and teachers, his one ray of light is his falcon, Kes (she is no pet; he admits that she's not tame, only trained). A Kestrel for a Knave is a brief and beautifully written book and gives the most painful description since Dickens of the horrors of growing up in society's gutter. A must read.
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