When he gets out of the detention center for serving time due to Alex's confession, Jockey acts as a friend to Alex again and dares him to spend a night out on the streets with him, yet in taking the dare, Alex quickly comes to realize that surviving the streets will be less frightening than surviving Jockey's planned revenge.
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My novel, The Song of an Innocent Bystander is being adapted into a major feature film. My children's book series, Philomena Wonderpen, has been bought by an International media company to be adapted for television.
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I don't think this book was very realistic. It started out alright, a class clown getting bullied, meets up with his girlfriend && then they find out that an old friend is back in town, but half way through part 2, it got a bit far fetched. All in all this book was...okay =]
mmm I remember reading this in high school and really liking it... unfortunately it doesn't have that same effect now... good for what it is though, a good Australian YA fiction.