Smash! - Hardcover
Steve and Ashraf are 16-year-old classmates and each fancies the other's sister. A bond forms between them but is destroyed when Steve gets involved in an extreme right-wing organisation and Ashraf is drawn into an extremist Muslim group. They become enemies and are injured when their rival groups clash. Over weeks in hospital in adjoining beds, they're visited by their sisters. The girls' friendship and the boys' fondness for the other's sister, begins to break down the barrier of intolerance. The boys become friends again.
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Robert Swindells taught for eight years before becoming a full-time writer. His books usually carry a message and are particularly directed at teenagers. He has won the Children's Book Award twice - for BROTHER IN THE LAND and ROOM 13 - and the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD. Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors.
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Steve and Ashraf each fancy the other's sister. A bond forms between them but is destroyed when both get involved in opposing right-wing racial groups. They become enemies and are injured in the clash. The sisters slowly work to bring them together again.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 024113689X
- ISBN 13 9780241136898
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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