How To Be a Boy (15 page)
Authors: Tony Bradman
STEVE TASANE
has been writer-in-residence at Battersea Dogs’ Home, Hamleys Toy Shop and the V&A Museum of Childhood. He has performed his poems at venues ranging from Glastonbury Festival Kidzfield to the Royal Festival Hall. His performance poems can also be found on YouTube or on his website:
www.stevetasane.com
DAN TUNSTALL
has worked in a factory making fridges, as a gardener and a teacher. His debut novel,
Big and Clever
, was shortlisted for the 2010 Branford Boase Award. Dan aims to write page-turning fiction for teenagers. He lives in the West End of Leicester with his wife and daughters. Dan likes sport, reading, old films and listening to music.
TIM WYNNE-JONES
has written thirty-two books including novels, picture books and three collections of short stories. He has twice won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for children’s literature for
Some of the Kinder Planets
and
The Maestro
, the latter of which was published in the UK as
The Survival Game
and was shortlisted for the Guardian Prize, as was his thriller
The Boy in the Burning House
. His latest novel is
The Uninvited
, published in the UK by Walker Books.
Everything you know is wrong.
New truths from eight
award-winning authors
Philip Ardagh
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Anthony Mcgowan
Linda Newbery
Mal Peet
Marcus Sedgwick
Eleanor Updale
Matt Whyman
“We found him face down in the mud at Long Reach. Near the Dartford bridge. Looks like he might have jumped off
.”
EDDIE SAVAGE makes two shocking
discoveries in quick succession.
One: his brother, Steve, has been working undercover.
Two: Steve is dead.
Eddie refuses to believe that his hero elder brother killed himself,
and there’s only one way to find out the truth: follow his footsteps.
There’s a job: to infiltrate the notoriously violent Kelly family.
There’s a girl: the boss’s daughter – beautiful, sexy, dangerous.
Before long, Eddie is up to his neck in Kelly business … and sinking fast.
A GRITTY, GLAMOROUS THRILLER WITH A HEART-STOPPING, BRUTAL CONCLUSION.
Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. But Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. There is no privacy.
There are no secrets.
Or are there?
Prentisstown has been lying to Todd.
And now he’s going to have to run…
“Furiously paced, terrifying, exhilarating and heartbreaking, it’s a book that haunts your imagination.”
The Sunday Telegraph
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN CHILDREN’S FICTION PRIZE AND THE BOOKTRUST TEENAGE PRIZE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the authors’ imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
This collection first published 2011 by Walker Books Ltd 87 Vauxhall Walk, London, SE11 5HJ
Anthology © 2011 Tony Bradman
Introduction © 2011 Tony Bradman
“Last Man In” © 2011 Dan Tunstall
“Fitting the Skin” © 2011 Steve Tasane
“Let’s Go, Let’s Go” © 2011 Jamila Gavin
“Dear Tadpole” © 2011 Katie Dale
“The Other 90” © 2011 Bali Rai
“Project Love/Origin” © 2011 Ian Beck
“On the Fence” © 2011 Flint Keller
“Pawn” © 2011 Tim Wynne-Jones
“Mean, Meaner, Meanest” © 2011 Keith Gray
“The Family Tree” © 2011 Mal Peet
Cover photograph © Imagesource /
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The moral rights of the contributors have been asserted
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, taping and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data:
a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-4063-4274-1 (ePub)