Keith Gray wendde zich serieus tot het schrijven nadat hij zijn boekhoudexamens had mislukt. Zijn debuutroman, gepubliceerd toen hij nog maar 24 was, kreeg een nominatie voor de Guardian Fiction Prize. Sindsdien zijn zijn werken wereldwijd erkend, met winsten of vermeldingen op prestigieuze prijzen over de hele wereld. Zijn bestseller 'Ostrich Boys' werd aangepast voor het toneel en Gray heeft recensies geschreven voor belangrijke kranten zoals The Guardian en de Scotsman. Hij is ook medeoprichter van de Sunday Writers’ Club.
The story follows two fourteen-year-old friends as they engage in the daring game of Creeping, navigating through the backyards of their neighborhood. Their adventure is fueled by a desire to demonstrate their bravery and cleverness while evading detection. This coming-of-age tale explores themes of friendship, risk-taking, and the thrill of youthful rebellion.
A thrilling reimagining of Houdini's childhood years and the life that made him master of escape. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers aged 8+
Four characters, four stories, one book that links them all. New edition of this thrilling drama from the award-winning Keith Gray. With a reading age of 8+, this book is also suitable for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.
Subtle and poetic drama set in 1920s Dustbowl America. From the award-winning author of Ostrich Boys. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+
Eric, are you ready to travel to a place you've never been before? Mathew Masters asked, loud enough for the whole audience to hear. Are you ready to do something truly magical? Are you ready, Eric, to vanish not somewhere, but Elsewhere?
In this compelling story of teenage rivalry and friendship, award-winning author Keith Gray captures the subtle agonies and reality of life growing up in a small town.Sully is the best climber in the village. He can scale the Twisted Sister's tangled branches and clamber up Double Trunker with ease. But when new kid Nottingham shows up and astonishes everyone with his climbing skills, Sully's status is under threat and there's only one way to prove who's best. Sully and Nottingham must race to climb the last unnamed tree. Whoever makes it to the top will become a legend. But something spiteful and ugly has reared its head in Sully ... Is it worth losing everything just to reach the top?
Jason has had enough of his parents’ arguments, so he’s running away. On the train to Liverpool he meets a “runner” called Jam who lives on the trains and at stations. His carefree life sounds so exciting that Jason thinks he might join him. Then Jason discovers Jam’s secret.
'It's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.'Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway. After a depressing and dispiriting funeral they feel taking Ross to Ross will be a fitting memorial for a 15 year-old boy who changed all their lives through his friendship. Little do they realise just how much Ross can still affect life for them even though he's now dead.Drawing on personal experience Keith Gray has written an extraordinary novel about friendship, loss and suicide, and about the good things that may be waiting just out of sight around the corner . . .
Brook High is a great grey concrete ants' nest of a school. The more questions he asks the deeper he becomes involved in the corrupt under-belly of the school. He discovers that the name of the organisation's leader is Freddie Cloth, and Mary Chase turns out to be Cloth's girlfriend. schovat popis
Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine and Mary Hooper. Some of today's leading writers for teens are gathered here in a wonderful collection of original stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting but all revolving around the same subject - having sex for the first time!