Plague 99
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Rub-a-Dub-Dub: Val Biro's 77 Favourite Nursery Rhymes (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Blackie and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.
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Last year's winner of the Lancashire Library Book of the Year Award now appears in paperback, making it an affordable and welcome addition to GCSE stock cupboards. Shahid, Fran and Harry are survivors of a plague, which has swept across London. Through their contrasting characters and attitudes, Jean Ure presents the reader with thought-provoking discussion points, most notably in Fran's diary. She debates the foolishness of allowing others to take responsibility for your life - the warning is that plague will be the result, or one result, of this desire to opt out. A new beginning emerges at the end of the book but the message is undiluted by easy answers.
