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In a tough, charged story, fifteen year old Laurence recounts the fifteen days he keeps himself and his little brother going when their mum abandons them. It’s a challenging story of survival against the odds; Laurence has to keep one step ahead of social services if he is to stop his brother going into care.
But he has a dream of winning a fabulous holiday that will be the lure to bring his mother home. Laurence tells the story of his predicament without rancour despite the grimness of his situation and with great tenderness for his brother making this a gripping story that makes the reader, like Laurence, hope that all will work out alright in the end.
Author Dave Cousins was a winner of the 2010 Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators search for Undiscovered Voices. Click here to visit his website.
Click here for a Fifteen Days reading guide.
Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it's not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic and your six-year-old brother thinks he's a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night, Laurence tells nobody, terrified he and his brother will be taken into care if anyone finds out. Instead, he attempts to keep up the pretence that Mum is still around: dressing up in her clothes to trick the neighbours and spinning an increasingly complicated tangle of lies.
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Fifteen-year-old Laurence Roach just wants a normal life, but it's not easy when your mum is a depressed alcoholic and your six-year-old brother thinks he's a dog. When Mum fails to come home one night, Laurence tells nobody, terrified he and his brother will be taken into care if anyone finds out.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Fifteen Days without a Head and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-14 years old
Fifteen Days without a Head features in the following genres: Recommended Children's eBooks, Recommendations, Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Fifteen Days without a Head was written by Dave Cousins and published by Oxford University Press
Fifteen Days without a Head has 272 pages