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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Catherine MacPhail is a brilliant children's writer and this is the story of a girl and her mum moving into a high-rise flat. There's a little snobbery from them, and lot of bullying from Ma lafferty and her sons, who run the high-rise. It is funny and entertaining but has a lot of depth to it as well. Read this and anything else you can get by her! (I am a teacher and my pupils have all really enjoyed this book, and we have got a lot out of it!)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fightin back is about a young girl called Kerry who moves to an estate with her mother.The estate is full of bad gangs and drugs.there is one lady who nobody messes with but of course Kerry and her mother don't know that and when kerry's mother gets into trouble bad things happen but in the end something very good happens to the estate read on to find out what!!!.
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This book follows Kerry as she moves from her family home into high rise flats with her mother after her parent's relationship ended.
No matter what Kerry and her mother do, nothing seems to be right for them. They get on the wrong side of the Lafferty's from day one, the family who pretty much run the area, everyone is afraid of the Lafferty's. After going through so much already with the breakdown of her marriage, Kerry's mother is not going to take any more, she stands up for herself and her daughter and doesn't back down or give in to the threats.
Which seems to be just what this neighbourhood needs!
We aren't told much about Kerry's life before she moved to the flat which I would have liked to see in order to compare the two different living arrangements. The message in the story is very good, and comes across in a not too in your face kind of way, which I really enjoyed.
I really loved the descriptive way in which this story was told, I grew up in a high rise flat and found this book bringing back all my old memories of living there.
I also found the book really easy to read and managed to get through it in one sitting!
Overall a great book with a brilliant message to share!
No matter what Kerry and her mother do, nothing seems to be right for them. They get on the wrong side of the Lafferty's from day one, the family who pretty much run the area, everyone is afraid of the Lafferty's. After going through so much already with the breakdown of her marriage, Kerry's mother is not going to take any more, she stands up for herself and her daughter and doesn't back down or give in to the threats.
Which seems to be just what this neighbourhood needs!
We aren't told much about Kerry's life before she moved to the flat which I would have liked to see in order to compare the two different living arrangements. The message in the story is very good, and comes across in a not too in your face kind of way, which I really enjoyed.
I really loved the descriptive way in which this story was told, I grew up in a high rise flat and found this book bringing back all my old memories of living there.
I also found the book really easy to read and managed to get through it in one sitting!
Overall a great book with a brilliant message to share!
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