A dazzling novel about surfing that also explores the issues of adoption. "All they lived for was the white pumping surf...young men, dressed in crazycoloured wet suits, cutting through the breakers...The very sight of them made his body zing..." Matt hero-worships the surfers, who bring a taste of freedom and adventure to the grey northern seaside town where he lives. He'd love to be one of them down on the beach, riding the waves, instead of visiting old Florrie for a school history project. There's a lot more to Florrie, though, than meets the eye, and her personal history has some uncanny similarities to Matt's own. Through his friendship with Florrie, he learns to surf his own sometimes rough sea of relationships, negotiating and balancing the pulls of emotions he experiences.
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Theresa Tomlinson was a thirty-year-old mother of two when she began to write down the stories she'd made up to entertain her children. The first to be published was The Flither Pickers, which was followed by The Water Cat, The Secret Place, Riding the Waves (commended for the Carnegie Medal in 1991), The Rope Carrier, Haunted House Blues, Meet Me by the Steelmen (commended for the Carnegie Medal in 1998) and Night of the Red Devil. All of Theresa Tomlinson's books are set in the north of England - many of them on the north-east coast, an area around which she travelled extensively as a small child.
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Riding the waves is one of the best books I have read, and it keeps with me, even though I read it years ago. It is all about a boy who experiences the problems that most of us may never have to deal with, and the ones that all of us do. The book's characters give you real emotion, and Matt, in the book takes you plunging into the deep end with him when he decides to ride the waves. The book brings with it a wave of strength, when Matt is told never to give up the book is symbolising that in your beliefs, you should never be set back, at all. Theresa Tomlinson has brought, with this book, an ocean of emotion and feeling. Worth the five stars.
'The waves can knock you down, but they wont stop you getting up and trying again.'
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