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BfK No. 127 - March 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is Sharon Creech’s The Wanderer. Sharon Creech is interviewed by Suzanne Manczuk. Our thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help in producing this March cover.

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The Drop

Anthony Masters
(Orchard Books)
192pp, 978-1841214276, RRP £4.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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This novel explores the violent underside of inter-gang rivalry in a school and looks at what can happen when a character who is out of control assumes a position of power in a group. Greg, a new boy at St. Peter's, Wandsworth, becomes caught up in tensions between the sporty Sweats and the Geeks, a mixture of outsiders led by Oliver Cole who is more of an outsider than most. 'The Drop' is a potentially lethal form of punishment meted out to their adversaries by the Geeks. Greg, anxious to make friends and establish himself in the school, tries to steer a course between the two factions. Apart from Greg and his family, the characters are somewhat two dimensional, but plenty of dialogue and a plot which moves along at a lick is likely to keep readers, especially boys, engaged right up to the dramatic finale.

Reviewer: 
Valerie Coghlan
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