- Traffic accident victims, Teenage boys, Fiction, Traffic accidents, fiction
A teenage boy's face is disfigured in an automobile accident, and he must learn to deal with the changes in his life.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- First published
- February 26, 2001
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- Pearson Education, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Heinemann Educational Publishers
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780435233440
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“The last minutes of the last lesson of the last day of term were ticking away, and Martin Turner could not wait to be set free.”
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