- Correspondence, Interpersonal relations, Criminals, Juvenile delinquents
You'd have to be crazy to make friends with a murderer...When 15-year-old Chas finds a website asking people to write to prisoners on Death Row, he decides it would be funny to get letters from a murderer. He writes to an inmate, pretending to be his mum, but the chilling replies are not what he expects. Chas's own wild escapades land him in a young offender's institute, where he learns that his penpal has been released. And is coming to find him...
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Contemporary, unpretentious, classical in form and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Ally Kennen
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Marion Lloyd, Marion Lloyd Books, Scholastic
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407132204
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