Orangeboy: Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children, winner of the YA Book Prize

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Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people look straight through. Not anymore. Not since Mr Orange.” The emotional ride: edge-of-your-seat stuff. It’s easy to feel for Marlon from the beginning. I think having the first scene be what is so clearly a first date makes him so vulnerable that we readers easily identify with him and see what a fish out of water he is when everything starts getting serious. Danuta Kean, "Waterstones children's prize shortlists reflect readers' search for hope in anxious times", The Guardian, 8 February 2017. A gritty coming-of-age drama urban thriller with a powerful message and an irresistable central character. The Voice

Orangeboy: Short-listed for the Costa Book Award 2016

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Orangeboy (Hodder Children's Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1444927207. Also available as an audiobook, narrated by Ben Bailey Smith. [18] What a book! Such a gripping, gritty storyline, with such wonderful, believable characters. Loved it.” Tanya Landman, author of Buffalo Soldier

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Aside from some scenes at the beginning of the novel, romance is mostly absent from the story and I enjoyed this hugely. It was refreshing to see another YA book (This Savage Song, I'm looking at you) with little romantic interaction and I'm a fan of novels that don't feel the need to include it at all. If a book foregoes romance to focus instead on strong friendships - which was exactly what Orangeboy did - and explores these friendships in detail, chances are I'm going to be 100% on board. One of the main friendships in Orangeboy could have easily become a romantic relationship, but I'm so glad it didn't because that could have undermined the friendship itself. year old Marlon has promised his mum that he will stay out of trouble. But now he’s being hunted. They’re looking for Mr Orange and they’ll use Marlon to get him. When Happiness is high enough and Hunger is below 30%, the Happy icon will appear above its head. But if Happiness is low enough regardless of Hunger rate, the Sad icon will appear instead. stars. I don't know how to evaluate this book fairly. It had its strong points, and it covers subject matter which is probably of interest to many teens, but I didn't enjoy reading it at all. I had to drag myself through it, and even the suspenseful elements didn't drive me through the plot. Also, it felt overlong - and the narrative jumped and 'jived' (lots of street lingo) in a way that meant I couldn't just skim it. Having said all that: it was the YA Book Prize winner for 2017, and I respect that I was probably just not the right reader for this book. En helaas bleek dit boek inderdaad niet voor mij geschreven te zijn. Ik wil niet per definitie zeggen dat dit aan het boek ligt. Het boek is heel vlot en goed geschreven. De dialogen zijn realistisch en natuurlijk en ook de karakters zijn interessant en gelaagd genoeg. Het verhaal kent een vlot verteltempo en houdt je als lezer constant op het puntje van je stoel. Ik heb het boek in een uurtje of 3,5 uitgelezen en dat zegt in elk geval iets.This book has great teen appeal. Be prepared to read it in one sitting as you will not want to put this book down! Honestly I’d be quite happy do go and push this book at so many people with the above (and I’m still mad at myself for taking so long to read Orangeboy). Especially because I adore the two main female characters in this book so much, Tish and Marlon’s mother. At times I could have just shaken Marlon for not realising what these women were doing but that leads to spoilers and I most certainly don’t want to spoil anything about this book for anyone. Built-in business intelligence reports provide an effective means to understand where your library is in relation to its objectives in real time.

Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence (9781444927207/Paperback

A business intelligence report library with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including peer comparisons to other libraries. Fruits: Pomegrenade and Raptor Bane. (NOTE: The Mutated Pomegrenade and the Mutated Raptor Bane are also Pet Food type 3 but are deemed risky and unreliable as the Mutated Pomegrenade explodes on impact when dropped and the Mutated Raptor Bane splatters on impact when dropped) Patrice was born in Brighton, raised in an Italian-Trinidadian family in mid-Sussex, and now lives on the South Coast. The story follows, Marlon, a young man whose brother was involved in street gangs until an accident several years ago changed everything. Marlon promised his mum he'd stay in school and avoid his brother's old life, but when old feuds reemerge and his family and friends are threatened, it's not quite so easy to keep his promise. Sixteen year old Marlon has made his Mum a promise – he’ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. But when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. Now he must become the person he never wanted to be to protect everyone he loves.This novel fell flat. It began with such urgency - throwing me straight into a great mystery-esque set up that I couldn't wait to follow. But then Patrice Lawrence did the unforgivable and just threw the mystery out the window. I'm frustrated. Haar oudste zoon zat in het bende-milieu tot hij bij een auto-ongeluk hersenbeschadiging opliep. Uit het boek blijkt dat ze heel wat met hem te stellen heeft gehad, maar ze heeft hem nooit laten vallen. Als Marlon dan ook verzeild raakt in een ongemakkelijke en gevaarlijke situatie, was het voor mij dan ook absoluut niet begrijpelijk waarom hij zijn moeder niet in vertrouwen neemt en eerlijk vertelt wat er gebeurd is. For a lot of the book Marlon is misunderstood by his peers, family, and the police, and this made him very easy to empathise with because the reader is privy to his inner thoughts and thus knows his true intentions. Other characters, however, don't have access to these thoughts and that's how misunderstandings arise. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9937 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000061 Openlibrary_edition

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It also has two kinds of hidden behaviors that the crew needs to pay attention to: Hunger and Happiness. In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [17] Selected bibliography [ edit ] Orangeboy has become a book that I’ve found complex to review. Foremost I want to say this: ‘Orangeboy is gripping, intriguing and emotional. It’s an excellent mystery, with drama and a wonderful set of relationships for the reader to explore, both friendships and the family dynamics. Just go and read it now!’ Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. Not any more. Not since Mr Orange.”Sixteen-year-old Marlon Sunday has made a promise to his mum that he’ll never follow his older brother Andrew on the destructive path into the drug and gang culture that’s rife amongst London’s teens. Although he has every intention of keeping that promise, it becomes a lot harder when Sonya Wilson, a girl from his school, starts to take an interest in him. When that happens, Marlon’s life starts to take some very unexpected turns. Automated Net Promoter Scoring (NPS) makes it easy to understand customer library experiences to build customer loyalty.