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Katies Entschluss
Seit dem tragischen Tod ihres Vaters liegt Katie im permanenten Clinch mit ihrer Mutter. Als sie den sensiblen Joe kennen lernt, kann sie endlich mit jemandem über ihre Probleme reden. Mehr noch: Gemeinsam mit Joe haut sie von zu Hause ab. Doch unterwegs ist alles anders. Joe entpuppt sich als rücksichtslos und aggressiv. Während die Polizei tatenlos zuschaut, beschleicht Katie ein schlimmer Verdacht: Sie soll das nächste Opfer werden. Aber warum?
- GenresYoung AdultThriller
256 pages, Hardcover
First published August 29, 2002
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About the author
Rosie Rushton
116 books59 followersRosie Rushton began her career as a feature writer for a local paper. Staying Cool, Surviving School was her first book, published by Piccadilly Press in 1993. After writing another non-fiction title, You’re My Best Friend, I Hate You! (available from Puffin), Rosie turned to fiction.
The Leehampton series
Best Friends
Best Friends Together (1998)
Best Friends Getting Sorted (1999)
Best Friends in Love (1999)
What A Week series
21st century Austen
The Secrets of Love (2005)
Summer of Secrets (2007)
Secret Schemes and Daring Dreams (2008)
Love, Lies and Lizzie (2009)
Echoes of Love (2010)
Whatever Love Is (2012)
Other books
Staying Cool, Surviving School (1993)
You're My Best Friend - I Hate You! (1994)
Poppy (1996)
Olivia (1997)
Sophie (1998)
Melissa (1998)
Jessica (2000)
Life Line (1999)
PS He’s Mine (2000)
Break Point (2001)
Tell Me I’m OK, really (2001)
Last Seen Wearing Trainers (2002)
All Change! (2000)
Fall Out! (2002)
Waving Not Drowning (2003)
Friends, Enemies and Other Tiny Problems (2003)
The Leehampton series
Best Friends
Best Friends Together (1998)
Best Friends Getting Sorted (1999)
Best Friends in Love (1999)
What A Week series
21st century Austen
The Secrets of Love (2005)
Summer of Secrets (2007)
Secret Schemes and Daring Dreams (2008)
Love, Lies and Lizzie (2009)
Echoes of Love (2010)
Whatever Love Is (2012)
Other books
Staying Cool, Surviving School (1993)
You're My Best Friend - I Hate You! (1994)
Poppy (1996)
Olivia (1997)
Sophie (1998)
Melissa (1998)
Jessica (2000)
Life Line (1999)
PS He’s Mine (2000)
Break Point (2001)
Tell Me I’m OK, really (2001)
Last Seen Wearing Trainers (2002)
All Change! (2000)
Fall Out! (2002)
Waving Not Drowning (2003)
Friends, Enemies and Other Tiny Problems (2003)
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
August 7, 2022
Wciągająca, szybka i przyjemna.
September 22, 2020
Couldn’t put it down. Good pace and the chapters telling the time was something I’ve never encountered in a book, I felt like I was counting down to something big. I loved little Tom and his perspective, and that he knew Katie was in trouble before Katie. The final chapter was a bit of a downer. I was hoping for a different ending of her coming home. Like a new pair of those silver trainers that her mother hated and maybe a bit more information about Joe and what happened to him. Extent of his injuries, prison etc. I did find Katie very trusting and naive. Also possibly the reason why she and her mother are often at war with another is that she’s quite like her mother.
August 10, 2022
Fajna książka, zaskakująca, choć rozkręcająca się powoli.
May 10, 2014
Katie's mom is a drunk and abusive. Her mom shoves her down the stairs, but still Katie convinces herself that her mom loves her. One day, after a violent fight, Katie runs out of the house and this is when she meets Joe. Joe convinces Katie to run away with him, so that her mom can be punished and mend her ways.
Katie has a younger brother, Tom, who is autistic and although he knows what has happened to Katie, he cannot find a way to tell anybody.
In the middle of the story, you understand why Joe convinced her to really run away, even before Katie does, but this does not deter from the story, because it isn't dragged out. All this time Katie's mom has been running away from her past and taking her guilt out on Katie.
This story was written from the point of view of four different characters and is such a sad, sad story. Last Seen Wearing Trainers is written in such an emotional, powerful manner that at times I could not help crying.
"I have to face it - the secret's out; the secret I have spent the last fifteen years trying to hide. Fifteen years in which I've avoided going anywhere that He might be, fifteen years of lying and pretending and praying that things will be all right.
But God always has the last word, doesn't He?"
Katie has a younger brother, Tom, who is autistic and although he knows what has happened to Katie, he cannot find a way to tell anybody.
In the middle of the story, you understand why Joe convinced her to really run away, even before Katie does, but this does not deter from the story, because it isn't dragged out. All this time Katie's mom has been running away from her past and taking her guilt out on Katie.
This story was written from the point of view of four different characters and is such a sad, sad story. Last Seen Wearing Trainers is written in such an emotional, powerful manner that at times I could not help crying.
"I have to face it - the secret's out; the secret I have spent the last fifteen years trying to hide. Fifteen years in which I've avoided going anywhere that He might be, fifteen years of lying and pretending and praying that things will be all right.
But God always has the last word, doesn't He?"
May 16, 2008
this book is really sad but boring!!:(
April 5, 2012
It was okay, not really my style.
June 22, 2015
A good story line with a very unexpected twist!
May 5, 2016
I really enjoyed this teen thriller. It was full of twists and turns and I would definitely recommend it.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews