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Warehouse
'I know a place you can go'. It's a secret place hidden among the run-down buildings of the derelict dockyards.
A community of young people have gathered in an old warehouse to get away from a world they don't fit in to. Through separate but interweaving narratives Warehouse tells the stories of three of the community's members. There's Robbie who is running away from his violent older brother, Frank, and needs some space to realise that the beatings are not his fault. Amy, who's supposed to be travelling in Europe but has had her rucksack stolen and is too proud to ask her smothering family for help. And then there's Lem, an ex-drug-addict and founder of the Warehouse community, whose perceived role as leader by the other young people is too much for him to cope with.
A community of young people have gathered in an old warehouse to get away from a world they don't fit in to. Through separate but interweaving narratives Warehouse tells the stories of three of the community's members. There's Robbie who is running away from his violent older brother, Frank, and needs some space to realise that the beatings are not his fault. Amy, who's supposed to be travelling in Europe but has had her rucksack stolen and is too proud to ask her smothering family for help. And then there's Lem, an ex-drug-addict and founder of the Warehouse community, whose perceived role as leader by the other young people is too much for him to cope with.
256 pages, Paperback
First published June 6, 2002
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About the author
Keith Gray
45 books57 followersKeith Gray grew up in and around Grimsby and Cleethorpes on the east coast of England and decided he'd better take his writing ambition seriously after achieving 0% in his accountancy exams. His debut, 'Creepers', was published when he was only 24 and was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. Since then his books have either won or been shortlisted for awards all over the world including the Sankei Cultural Publishing Prize of Japan, the American Library Association Best Books (YA) and the Booktrust Teenage Prize. In the UK his bestselling novel 'Ostrich Boys' was shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Costa Children's Book Award and won the Scottish Children's Book Awards, and has been adapted for the stage. Keith has been a reviewer for both the Guardian and Scotsman newspapers. In 2017 he moved to live in Vienna, Austria, with his partner, their daughter and a parrot called Bellamy. Keith is a co-founder of Sunday Writers’ Club.
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May 17, 2011
I decided to read this book because it had an interesting fictional take on the major problems that young people sometimes can get into and a warehouse where they can call home for now.
This book comes under the category of a book written by a male.
I liked the plot of this book because it gives an insight of how the people who have slipped out of society, making bad decisions or just having bad luck or circumstances have to live their life away from the outside world, in a sanctuary, known as the warehouse, an abandoned building where they can call home.
I didn't like about this book is some of the impracticality of it, how they can live in an abandoned building in the middle of London and never be found by authorities, but after all it is fiction.
I would recommend this book to people my age and over, because I believe that you need a mature overlook on it to understand the hardship that the characters have to go through and live on through.
This book comes under the category of a book written by a male.
I liked the plot of this book because it gives an insight of how the people who have slipped out of society, making bad decisions or just having bad luck or circumstances have to live their life away from the outside world, in a sanctuary, known as the warehouse, an abandoned building where they can call home.
I didn't like about this book is some of the impracticality of it, how they can live in an abandoned building in the middle of London and never be found by authorities, but after all it is fiction.
I would recommend this book to people my age and over, because I believe that you need a mature overlook on it to understand the hardship that the characters have to go through and live on through.
December 15, 2014
Interesting and realistic look into the lives of a group of homeless teenagers and young adults (in their early 20s) who find a safe place to stay in an abandoned warehouse. There's Robbie, running away from an abusive older brother, Amy, from a wealthy family who is striving for independence and freedom from her mother's strict rules suffocating dominance, and Lem, the 'King' of the warehouse community.
My favourite story was probably Amy's because out of the three main characters, she's the one who changes most. Even though her home life is a lot better than most of the kids at the warehouse, she has her reasons for wanting to escape. Although these initially seem petty, as she begins to change and let down her guard, her reasons for coming to the warehouse seem more understandable. She's not very likeable at first, but by the end of her story, she's a lot more sympathetic.
My favourite story was probably Amy's because out of the three main characters, she's the one who changes most. Even though her home life is a lot better than most of the kids at the warehouse, she has her reasons for wanting to escape. Although these initially seem petty, as she begins to change and let down her guard, her reasons for coming to the warehouse seem more understandable. She's not very likeable at first, but by the end of her story, she's a lot more sympathetic.
October 1, 2016
Great cover. When I bought the assistant commented that the cover made her want to read it too.
We then went on to say that we did, in fact , always 'judge a book by it's cover'.
(And, according to this week's New Scientist, we can accurately judge a person's honesty in only a tenth of a second...so we do it with people too)
And the story lives up to it's cover. Highly recommended.
We then went on to say that we did, in fact , always 'judge a book by it's cover'.
(And, according to this week's New Scientist, we can accurately judge a person's honesty in only a tenth of a second...so we do it with people too)
And the story lives up to it's cover. Highly recommended.
June 20, 2015
really good
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