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BfK No. 133 - March 2002

Cover Story
This issue's cover is from Celia Ree's Sorceress. Celia Rees is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children's Books for their help with this March cover.

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Wrecked

Robert Swindells
(Puffin Books)
192pp, 978-0141310350, RRP £5.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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'It's a sad irony in my view that while those who supply our youngsters with other drugs go to prison, those who feed them alcohol are knighted.' Here is another hard-hitting examination of an important social problem from an award-winning author. Many aspects of our alcohol culture are scrutinised and the adults do not come out of it well; the winos, who buy the drink for under-aged teenagers for a liquid commission, the greedy pub owners, the woman who plies European cannies under the front of her ice-cream van and the parents who can come up with such justifications as, 'The lotion: to be taken before, with or instead of food. Cures picturing, promotes forgetting. Cheers. Skilled storytelling and a fast, hard-hitting pace makes this an important book to get into the hands of teenagers. It avoids being preachy and I defy any youngster not to be left with plenty to think about.

Reviewer: 
David Bennett
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