Respect
By: by Mandasue Heller
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781444769463; 9781444769470; 9781444769500
Subjects: Suspense fiction; Teenage girls; Fiction
Description: Mandasue Heller's new heroine is a fifteen-year-old Manchester girl who is both brave and determined to do the right thing - but that may not be enough to save her from a lethal cocktail of violence. From the author praised by Martina Cole and Jeffery Deaver.
Table of contents: title: Chantelle has everything going against her. She's a good student who only wants to pass her exams and find a way out of the sink estate in Manchester where she grew up. But now her feckless mother has taken off for Spain with her latest boyfriend and she's single-handedly raising her tearaway nine-year-old brother Leon. She thinks her worst problem is the debt collectors at the door. But Leon has made some new friends: teenage gang members who have given him a mobile phone, a knife; title: and some drugs to hide in her flat. A part-time job seems to be the answer to Chantelle's prayers. But the violence is about to come home to her; title: with a vengeance. And the only person who's offering any help seems to be just as bad as the people she's trying to escape from ...