Puffin Essentials Stone Cold
Stone Cold follows a homeless boy living on the streets of London and confronting hidden danger.
Work Information
Homelessness becomes a thriller without safety.
Stone Cold centers on a homeless boy living on the streets of London and confronting hidden danger. Homelessness becomes a thriller without safety.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Puffin
- Published
- 2005-02-01
- Pages
- 144 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.9 x 0.94 x 19.66 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780140362510
- ISBN-10
- 0140362517
- Price
- 486 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Growing Up & Facts of Life
Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she's prepared to use herself as bait ... Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice, for BROTHER IN THE LAND and for ROOM 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, and also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; The Last Bus
Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939 and continues to live in Yorkshire. He left school at 15 and worked in a variety of jobs, including primary school teaching, before becoming a full-time writer. His widely acclaimed novels often reflect his political passions, such as BROTHER IN THE LAND, which is set in the aftermath of a nuclear war. He has won the Red House Children's Book Prize several times and in 1993 he won the prestigious Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, a young adult novel about homelessness.
Reviews
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スリリング
ホームレスの少年とホームレス専門の連続殺人鬼，二人の視点から交互に書かれ，二人がいつ出会うのか，と読者はどきどきしながら読む本。スリラーとしても面白いのですが，ホームレス問題やマスコミ批判など，社会派な側面も。 高校生くらいの主人公が，まじめに働くつもりなのに否応なく追いこまれてホームレスになっていく過程はすごく可哀想。悪人，親切な人，一般人，ホームレスが入り乱れる生活描写はすごくリアル。Stone Coldとは，犯人の冷血と主人公の眠る戸口の冷たさの両方を指しています。挙句に疲れ切った主人公は，若い女性ホームレスと友達になることでやっと少し元気を出しますが…。 クライマックスの殺人犯との対決は，大人向けの本に比べややあっさりしている感があります。さらに残念なのは，アマゾンUKのレビューでネタばらしをしてしまっていたこと。最後のページで分かる事実を知って読んだために，★五つの感激は味わえませんでした。それがなかったら，もっと面白かったと思いますが，傑作の部類だと思います。93年度カーネギー賞受賞作。
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Top!!! Sehr zufrieden
Die Lektüre ist für die Schule 10. Klasse. Mein Sohn findet es interessant. Wieder mal schneller Versand...
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Todo correcto
Recibido con la rapidez del servicio prime.
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Really good gripping book
Bought this for an English course my daughter was doing. It’s definitely for teenagers as it involves murders but it’s brilliant. Really gives an insight into life on the streets and the way it is written from two narrators is brilliant. Lends itself to so many discussions as well as learning about writing styles etc. She really enjoyed it and I think it’s a book she will remember for a long time.
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Libro
Todo muy bien.
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Love it
I remember reading Robert Swindells books back when I was about 10-11, but this was one I hadn't read. This was a good book and I like how there are two different points of view (with the killer and the homeless boy) I love how swindells books are thrilling and unique