Tyro

by David McRobbie, Richard Aspel (Reading)

Andrew Kinnear has dreamt of becoming a ship's engineer and traveling the world. But as his apprenticeship at Dalrossan Dockyard begins, he quickly realizes there is much more to his dream than he's bargained for. There are unwritten rules in his new workplace that he will break at his peril - a fearsome pecking order, and strange rites of initiation... Who are his allies, and who are his enemies? In sorting this out, Andrew can only watch in horror as the situation gets worse – much worse.

Audio CD

First published April 22, 2013

About the author

David McRobbie is a full-time writer and lives in Brisbane. David is the author of Flying with Granny, Prices, and Mandragora, which was short-listed for the 1992 Children's Book Council of the Year Award for Older Readers. David's most recent titles, Schemes, Wages of Wayne, This Book is Haunted and Timelock were published in 1993.

Reviews

[Gargi]

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[Bev]

The humiliation and bullying to which a first year apprentice in the dockyards is subjected in the course of his ‘initiation’ into the work group are the focus of this story.

[Claire]

disturbing and vary bad!!!

[Connor]

Didn't like at all
climax is to late and lost my interest on the first page
Dont read it unless you must
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[Brandon Meikle]

A good book

[Sharnie]

A little bit on the preachy side, but then I'm not the target audience really, am I

[Dale]

An interesting look at workplace bullying, through the eyes of a ship apprentices in 1950s Scotland.

[Bri]

I had to read this for school and it was one of the worst. The only part worth reading is the last two chapters. The characters were so weirdly written, especially the girls. It was extremely difficult to even start reading.