By Anthony McGowan (author)
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Interest Age 11+ Reading Age 8+. Powerful novel by an award-winning author, charting a boy’s harrowing schooldays in a sink estate in Liverpool. Two's company and three's a crowd, one has got to go. This is a terrifically taut and short novel and perfect for reluctant and struggling readers as it has a reading age of around 8 but an interest age appropriate for teens.
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A Dyslexia Friendly title.
Mog and his mates are bored. Their school's a dump - the type of place kids get expelled to. Their lives seem pointless.
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The most exciting thing they do is jump over the beck: the polluted stream at the back of the school. And it's there that two separate events occur which will change Mog's life forever...
'McGowan is a wonderful writer' The Guardian
'One of the most talented writers around' The Times
Anthony McGowan is one of the most widely acclaimed young adult and children’s authors in the UK. His books have won numerous major awards. In 2020, he was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for Lark . He was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal with Rook and won the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Catalyst Award for Henry Tumour . His YA novel The Knife that Killed Me was made into a critically-lauded film in 2014.
Anthony lives in London, with his wife, two children and dog.
Photo credit Michael Thorn
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Mog and his mates are bored. Their school's a dump - the type of place kids get expelled to.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Fall and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-14 years old
The Fall features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Fall was written by Anthony McGowan and published by Barrington Stoke an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Fall has 84 pages
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