Location: United Kingdom
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Dec. 12, 2011
Jean Hassan
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Smashwords book reviews by Jean Hassan
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Hoodie
on Dec. 16, 2011
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and could feel what must be the heartfelt sadness of a lot of teenage boys and girls. The loneliness of more than one character, although different personalities and different moral standards, gives not only teenagers someone to identify with, but a lot of broken adults. This is a book that I would happily give to my grandchildren to read and would hope that it would be used in schools giving students something educationally stimulating yet gripping that they and hopefully the tutors will associate with and maybe learn from. This does have some anger, bad language, drugs, drink and even some reference to sex. Kids hear and see all of this and more, at home, at school and on the street, they are either the perpetrators or they suffer or see others suffer and it means they are afraid, insecure and very unhappy leaving them with a feeling of negativity and a lack of understanding of their peers, yet another generation of bullies and the bullied. So let your teenage and pre-teenage children read this book before they have to face any of these traits either in themselves or within others and maybe they will learn to understand themselves and others. I would rate this book in the same category as The Outsiders, which I gave my own sons to read and they are perfectly good guys and good citizens Well done Brendan, another good guy and citizen Jean