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Out of Shadows

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A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection.

A memorable, moving and disturbing coming-of-age story about how different individuals react to the political changes around them and, especially, to the changing power structure between blacks and whites under the new rule of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 1980s. Robert Jacklin, newly arrived from England, is encouraged by his father to see the new regime as the start of a hopeful future for racial tolerance, but his friendship with the seemingly all powerful Ivan casts doubts over that possibility. Ivan will stop at nothing to prevent the overthrow of white supremacy. Against a background of increasingly terrifying violence, a generation of schoolboys grow up in a country where the hope for change is quickly extinguished.

This is definitely a novel for 14+ and not younger.

 

Winner of the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010.

Shortlisted for the Teenage Book Prize 2010Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011

The Costa Children's Book Award Judges said: "A stunning debut novel without a false note.  Accomplished and powerful, it changes the way you think... For us, this extraordinary debut novel was a unanimous winner. This compelling portrayal of a nation in crisis gripped us from start to finish and has stayed with us since.”

A message from the author on hearing Out of Shadows had been shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book of the Year Award 2010:

As both reader and writer I’m always striving for certain key ingredients in a book, and so I felt a tremendous tingle of excitement on the day I believed I’d found a strong storyline and memorable characters that could be set against a backdrop that means so much to me. That Out of Shadows should be enjoyed by others and recognised with such a prestigious shortlist nomination is a deeply moving and humbling reward, and has rendered this author (hopefully temporarily) wordless.

Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2011.

As Branford Boase Award chair of judges, Julia Eccleshare says: ‘The 2011 shortlist was an extremely strong one and any of the titles would have made a worthy winner. However, the quality of the writing in Out of Shadows really impressed the judging panel. It is an important story and one told with great nuance and subtlety.

Titles shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2011:

I am the Blade

Out of Shadows

Tall Story

The Crowfield Curse

Unhooking the Moon

When I was Joe

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