Status
Available
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Publication
Puffin (2014), 400 pages
Description
Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
User reviews
LibraryThing member MargaretPemberton
A really superb book about a boy who is being cossetted by his mother. He desperately wants to skae board, but is not even allowed to cycle far from home. He feels he is being wrapped in bubble wrap and this book is about his attempts to break away from the cocoon at home. In doing so he discovers
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the reasons behind his mother's actions and has to work hard at bringing his wishes to fruition. Show Less
Awards
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2015)
Original language
English
Physical description
400 p.; 5.1 inches
ISBN
0141346299 / 9780141346298