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PUBLISHER: Barrington Stoke Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781842994863

RRP: £6.99

PAGES: 57

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 21, 2011

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The Fall

Anthony McGowan

Mog and his mates are bored. Their school’s a dump – the type of place kids get expelled to. Their lives seem pointless. The most exciting thing they do is jump over the beck: the polluted stream at the back of the school. And it’s there that two separate events occur which will change Mog’s life forever…

Anthony McGowan

Anthony McGowan’s first novel for teenagers Hellbent, was published in 2005. It was described by The Times as ‘brilliantly nauseating’. Henry Tumour won the Booktrust Teenage Prize the following year and the Catalyst Award in 2007 and in 2010 he was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. He lives in North West London.

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