Crash

Peters, Polly; Peters, Andrew Fusek

ISBN 10: 0340884681 / ISBN 13: 9780340884683

Published by Hodder Childrens, 2004

About this Item

New copy .Teen poetry ,hard hitting subjects 112pp.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1223847513

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crash
• Publisher: Hodder Childrens
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340884681
• ISBN 13: 9780340884683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Childrens
  • Poetry , Plays and Literary Studies

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Synopsis

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal

Short-listed for the Stockport Schools' Book Awards

Short-listed for the North East Book Awards

Nat is the lead singer in a band. He and his best mate Carl (on bass) hang out, until Kate sees them performing one night. Soon she and Nat are going out together. They get on, fall out, make up, and feel their love growing deeper, leading them on. But in one moment everything changes, and all the hopes and promises of the future are shattered.

Deeply absorbing, this powerful story is told in different voices and entirely in poems. Lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching and gripping, the variety of poetic forms magically captures the panoply of emotions associated with falling in love for the first time and suffering a bereavement.

The authors are a highly experienced and successful poetry- and drama-writing team with a strong reputation for knowing what works for teen readers.

About the Author

Andrew Fusek Peter is an Anglo-Czech poet, storyteller, didgeridoo player, broadcaster, anthologist, author and creative writing tutor with an international reputation. He has worked in thousands of schools, libraries, arts centres and literary festivals, giving lively performances and running workshops for all ages and abilities. With his wife Polly Peters he has written several poetry collections, and is the author of the Ed graphic novels illustrated by Stephen Player.

Polly Peters is a former drama and English teacher with wide experience as a writer and director of numerous community theatre projects. An accomplished poet, she and her husband Andrew Fusek Peters are also the authors of the powerful set of teen dramas, PLAYS WITH ATTITUDE.

The pair have two young children and live in a converted chapel in rural Shropshire.