- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Puffin Books; New edition edition (6 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014130023X
- ISBN-13: 978-0141300238
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,271,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Since Stone Cold, his excellent Carnegie Award-winning novel about homelessness, Robert Swindells has written just two other full-length works for Penguin Books--the home of his most mature and influential work. Following on from Smash!, which tackled racism, and Unbeliever, an unsettling tale of dubious urban cults, comes another gritty novel for teenagers called Dosh. As its title suggests, Dosh is about money. But it is also about something much bigger and infinitely more sinister as you might expect from this big-name author.
The tightly clenched fist holding crumpled banknotes on the cover is highly evocative and revealing about the book's contents. It says power and aggression. The knuckles are white and threatening. There is a raw, basic, illegal need in the image which accurately portrays what is to come--a fast-moving, well-told story that represents some of the best writing around today.
Money is close to every young person's heart--especially so when you have just started your first job. And when 10 percent of your earnings are spirited away, sometimes forcibly, by a shady local protection racket, it makes the pupils of Cottoncroft Comprehensive School want to fight back. Maisie Malin and some of her school mates are sick of "Push"--headed up by Charles Flitcroft and his cronies, young and old--so they try to set up "Pull" as an antidote. It's risky, of course, and there are bound to be setbacks along the way, but it seems that everybody's pain has to get worse before it stands any chance of getting better.
Swindells tackles his disturbing subjects with a distinctly contemporary prose. There is just enough description to enable the reader to visualise what's happening, and lots of dialogue to keep the plot moving. There are plenty of different characters as well, all playing a vital role in events as they unfold.
Robert Swindells is a heavyweight in the children's book world and he doesn't write nearly enough books like Dosh. He should stay in more. (Age 13 and over) --John McLay
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Every kid in secondary school is trying to earn extra money, but they must give 10 per cent of their earnings to Push, the school protection racket. The kids band together to form Pull and refuse to pay.
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Format:Hardcover
I really enjoyed this book. It isn't my favourite of Robert Swindells but all the same it was fun. It is exciting and intense and haunting and soon I couldn't put it down. I do recommend it, and this is why.
If you are in to gangster teen books then give this a try. I wouldn't recommend it though if you enjoy deeply romantic loving friendly stories, YUK! Anyway, I wouldn't read this if you haven't read any of his other books in case you hate it. You should definetly read "Room 13" which I think is his best book.
All in all Dosh is a good read. It tells a story of a girl known as Maisie, who wants to stop push who she is sick of paying. If you don't pay push you have to do horrible things. But people are getting sick of this and pull an organisation together which they funnily enough call Pull. Could this group of children, growing larger by the day, hold the answer to stop Push?
Read DOSH and find out!
If you are in to gangster teen books then give this a try. I wouldn't recommend it though if you enjoy deeply romantic loving friendly stories, YUK! Anyway, I wouldn't read this if you haven't read any of his other books in case you hate it. You should definetly read "Room 13" which I think is his best book.
All in all Dosh is a good read. It tells a story of a girl known as Maisie, who wants to stop push who she is sick of paying. If you don't pay push you have to do horrible things. But people are getting sick of this and pull an organisation together which they funnily enough call Pull. Could this group of children, growing larger by the day, hold the answer to stop Push?
Read DOSH and find out!
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