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BfK No. 98 - May 1996

Cover Story
Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.

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The Secrets of Sarah Byrnes

Chris Crutcher
(Macmillan Children's Books)
978-0330340557, RRP £3.99, Paperback
14+ Secondary/Adult
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Both cover and blurb strike a chord of melodrama far removed from this compelling and wittily written story, which has a real sense of pace and tension. Crutcher has command of the gamut of emotions - he crosses adeptly from humour and friendship to terror and animosity. Moby and Sarah Byrnes are two social misfits who form a friendship which protects them against the attentions of a playground bully and, later, Sarah's violent father. This is an excellent piece of fiction which should find its way into able Year 9 readers' hands.

Reviewer: 
Val Randall
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