Junkyard
- ISBN-10
- 184842664X
- ISBN-13
- 9781848426641
- Category
- Bristol (England)
- Pages
- 120
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-03-02
- Author
- Jack Thorne
Description
"Who'd want to join in building a fucking playground." It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space... Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't take much to get a bunch of kids to help him build a playground out of junk. He's wrong. It takes everything he's got. But when it's finished, it's going to be something. It's going to be everything...
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