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Publication Date: 30 Sep 1999 | Series: Black Apples
When Kaninda survives a brutal attack on his village in East Africa he joins the rebel army, where he's trained to carry weapons, and use them. But aid workers take him to London, to a new family and a comprehensive school. Clan and tribal conflicts are everywhere, and on the streets it's estate versus estate, urban tribe against urban tribe. All Kaninda wants it to get back to his own war and take revenge on his enemies. But together with Laura Rose, the daughter of his new family, he is drawn into a dangerous local conflict that is spiraling out of control.
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"A powerful and moving tale of human conflict, pride and friendship" -- Bool Trusted News
About the Author
Bernard Ashley is one of the top writers for teenagers today. Drawing on his experience as a headteacher in a South London school he writes exciting, hard-hitting stories for the young adult reader plus picture book and younger fiction texts. \n \nBernard`s first novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft won the `Other Award`, an alternative to the Carnegie Award and since then Bernard has written extensively both for television and the children`s book market. His adaptation of his own novel Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for the Best Children`s Entertainment Programme. \n \nBernard has written a number of successful novels for Orchard Books. Tiger Without Teeth was chosen as the Guardian`s Children`s Book of the Week, Little Soldier about the gang-run estates of inner London was shortlisted for both the Carnegie and Guardian Fiction Award and Revenge House a hard-hitting crime thriller are all typical of Bernard`s highly charged, gritty approach. \n \nBernard Ashley lives in South East London only a street or so from where he was born. During his time as a teacher and headteacher he worked in Kent, Hertfordshire, Newham and Greenwich. \n \nVisit Bernard Ashley at: www.bashley.com
One of the best books I have read. The only criticism is that I found it quite confusing at the start and hard to get into. When I got to the main part of the book, I didn't want to put it down. I'm quite slow at reading books but because this book was brilliant it took me one day to read. The story line was about an African boy who had been fighting in a war. He then got taken away to London because all his family were dead. He stayed with a girl and her family. He is determined to go back and take revenge on the people who killed his family. Overall I think everyone should grab this book and make sure they read it.
This book looked realy good from the outside so I thaught it was going to be a realy great book, however, I found the language hard to go along with, the story stupid in the way it was written, and I also found it to be very boaring! If you want my advice try reading this book before you buy it and make up your own mind about whether you like it or not.
