The tightrope walkers
By: David Almond
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Somerville, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780763673109
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Love; Working class families; Juvenile fiction; Bullies; Friendship in adolescence; Fiction; Bullying; Shipbuilding; Artists; Juvenile delinquents; First loves; Rape
Other titles: Tight-rope walkers
Description: A gentle visionary coming of age in the shadow of the shipyards of northern England, Dominic Hall is torn between extremes. On the one hand, he craves the freedom he feels when he steals away with the eccentric girl artist next door, Holly Stroud -- his first and abiding love -- to balance above the earth on a makeshift tightrope. With Holly, Dom dreams of a life different in every way from his shipbuilder dad's, a life fashioned of words and images and story. On the other hand, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to the brutal charms of Vincent McAlinden, a complex bully who awakens something wild and reckless and killing in Dom.
Notes: Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 10.0 174008.