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At the top is Mark Byrne and his gang. They've been hunting Alex for a while - today they're going to bring him down...Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.
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Robert Swindells was a primary school teacher and involved in the peace movement before becoming a full time author. He is the winner of numerous awards including the prestigious Carnegie Medal. He lives in Haworth, Yorkshire.
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Read as I work with teens and needed to know who it would appeal to. It is hard enough getting the teens I work with to read so to give them a totally inappropriate book would make it harder.
I like the idea that the story came about after the author got a letter from a boy who had taken a photo of a robbery and handed in his photo to the police who went on to arrest the robbers etc.
This tale is all about a boy who gets a digicam for his birthday and as he is trying it out he inadvertently takes a photo of a robbery ... then baddies come after him ... someone who nicks the digicam off him gets shot and he has the hindsight to remove the memory card ... during the night they get visitors ... and why because it was only a robbery? Was there something else on the photos?
Short and gripping.
I like the idea that the story came about after the author got a letter from a boy who had taken a photo of a robbery and handed in his photo to the police who went on to arrest the robbers etc.
This tale is all about a boy who gets a digicam for his birthday and as he is trying it out he inadvertently takes a photo of a robbery ... then baddies come after him ... someone who nicks the digicam off him gets shot and he has the hindsight to remove the memory card ... during the night they get visitors ... and why because it was only a robbery? Was there something else on the photos?
Short and gripping.
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I use quite a lot of the Barrington Stoke books with the kids I teach (mostly 14 to 16 year olds, not confident readers, often quite seriously streetwise), and while this book's by no means a bad read (and while I really like Robert Swindells' work), it's just not as good as it *could* be. For a start, the plot seems to lack a lot of the interesting ethical questions posed by other books in the series (it's basically: Boy witnesses crime, takes pictures, is tracked down by one of the criminals and - after a couple of twists and turns - is rewarded by the police for his good work). Secondly, it has a rather unconvincing and unexpected plot twist that takes up two chapters of explanation at the end of the book, but delivers very little in terms of reader interest or action. And thirdly... it's just very, very oddly written. While it's obvious that books aimed at this readership can't be laden with high-octane swearing, this one just seems weirdly old-fashioned in its language... halfway between 'Brighton Rock' and a very early episode of 'Grange Hill'. I know that fashions in language change all the time, but being so far from the mark with street talk in a book aimed at Snapshot's readership seems like a lapse in editorial rigour.
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