When I Was Joe
When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he’s named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look and a cool new image life as Joe is good, especially when he gets talent spotted as a potential athletics star, special...
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When Ty witnesses a stabbing, his own life is in danger from the criminals he’s named, and he and his mum have to go into police protection. Ty has a new name, a new look and a cool new image life as Joe is good, especially when he gets talent spotted as a potential athletics star, special training from an attractive local celebrity and a lot of female attention. But his mum can’t cope with her new life, and the gangsters will stop at nothing to flush them from hiding. Joe’s cracking under extreme pressure, and then he meets a girl with dark secrets of her own. This wonderfully gripping and intelligent novel depicts Ty/Joe's confused sense of identity in a moving and funny story that teenage boys and girls will identify with - a remarkable debut from a great new writing talent.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781847803795 (1847803792)
Publish date: August 26th 2012
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: When I Was Joe (#1)
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'It's one thing watching someone get killed. It's quite another talking about it.' So begins this gripping and entirely convincing story of a teenage boy who witnesses a stabbing and finds himself placed on a witness protection programme.Two things stand out for me about this remarkably assured debu...
When Ty is a witness to a violent murder he makes a statement to the police telling them what he saw. He had no idea how his life would begin to unravel, but nothing will ever be the same again after a petrol-bomb attack forces him into a witness protection program. Fleeing from his home, Ty and his...