Inventing Elliot - Softcover

Gardner, Graham

3.33

1,263 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842552082 ISBN 13: 9781842552087

Publisher: Orion Children's Books, 2010

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After being bullied mercilessly, Elliot is determined to reinvent himself when he moves house with Mum and Dad and goes to a new school. He is going to be so cool that no one will touch him. He's going to stand out just enough not to get noticed.
But he is too successful, and he does get noticed by the Guardians. They are a mysterious group of three who manipulate others and run the school with a reign of terror. They invite Elliot to become one of them. He faces an agonising decision, whether to use this new found power or risk standing up for himself and facing the consequences.

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Review:

Powerfully written ... don't expect to be able to put Inventing Elliot down (Time Out)

Chilling, powerfully written and occasionally disturbing (Irish Times)

An extraordinary novel ... powerful and intense (Birmingham Post)

Taut with menace from the very first page (The Daily Telegraph)

Taut and compelling (Financial Times)

A compulsively readable story (Time Out)

Astonishingly good (Bristol Evening Post)

A powerful first novel full of psychological realism (The Bookseller)

Marks the arrival of an important new talent ... the journey the story takes always surprises and sometimes shocks with its intensity (The Bookseller)

Elliot's dilemma makes riveting reading (The Children's Bookseller)

Book Description:

The critically-acclaimed psychological novel about what happens when a young teenager decides to become a different person.

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