As Chloe Cozens mourns the death of her mother, Lesley, teenage 'delinquent' Nicky Nelson experiences quite a different emotion towards her, his social worker, the one person he thought he could rely on when everyone else had let him down. Lesley Cozens wrote Nicky a letter before she died, the contents of which the reader does not know until much later in the novel, but the letter triggers a rage in Nicky that could have had tragic consequences if Chloe had not got involved. When Nicky begins hanging around Chloe's house with a mixture of curiosity and anger that she has had a happy life compared with his, he is prepared to hate her, but instead the two of them form a strange kind of bond. Chloe is her mother's daughter, and finds herself wanting to help Nicky find his real mother, the one who abandoned him at birth. Ironically, the clues she pieces together about what happened lead her back to her mother's home town, and to her childhood friend, Sonia, who is keeping a painful secret of her own. Chloe finds comfort in helping Nicky, a boy who is almost like a brother in that her own mother looked out for him for so long, and Nicky discovers that sometimes you have to trust in people in order to move on and build a life...
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Anne Cassidy has an established reputation in the world of young adult fiction. She has published several titles for Scholastic, including the East End Murders series for Point Crime as well as her stand alone novels, Talking to Strangers and the Hidden Child, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 1998. Looking for JJ, published in 2004 has received great acclaim and been shortlisted for many of the major awards, The Guardian Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal included, and was winner of the 2004 Booktrust Teenage Prize Award. As well the well-received Innocent, published by Hodder in 2006, Anne has published The Story of My Life and Birthday Blues to wide acclaim in 2006.Anne draws closely on her background and adolesence growing up in East London for her novels, and always writes about issues and characters that are close to her heart. She lives in London with her husband and son
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This book was a great story about a girl, who has just lost her mother, but then realizes that not everyone is grieving. Nicky is a boy who has been in a care home for almost all his life and has had a bad experience with one foster family. The two characters later on meet in the story and their tales unfold. I absolutely loved this book, but I would recommend it to 11+ as there is some sexual scenes in this book, 2 actually. I hope this review was helpful!
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I've been a fan of Anne Cassidy's novels for a while now, I think she is one of the best authors of Young Adult novels out there. Her books are always compassionate with a gritty realism to them and would appeal to young readers aged around 13 plus.
Careless is about two teenagers; Nicky Nelson and Chloe Couzens. Two young people who couldn't be more different yet have a bond that ties them together. Chloe has just lost her Mum Lesley to cancer and is grieving, Nicky was one of Lesley's clients - he's been in care since he was a tiny baby. Nicky received a letter from Lesley and he is angry. Angry that she has gone and left him just like everyone else has left him throughout his life. And so Nicky and Chloe's lives collide and secrets and lies are discovered.
True to life, realistic characters and a good plot - everything needed to keep the attention of the reader and also deals with some important issues for young people.
Careless is about two teenagers; Nicky Nelson and Chloe Couzens. Two young people who couldn't be more different yet have a bond that ties them together. Chloe has just lost her Mum Lesley to cancer and is grieving, Nicky was one of Lesley's clients - he's been in care since he was a tiny baby. Nicky received a letter from Lesley and he is angry. Angry that she has gone and left him just like everyone else has left him throughout his life. And so Nicky and Chloe's lives collide and secrets and lies are discovered.
True to life, realistic characters and a good plot - everything needed to keep the attention of the reader and also deals with some important issues for young people.
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