Orangeboy: Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children, winner of the YA Book Prize

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Longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award | Winner of the YA Book Prize 2017 | Winner of Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017, Older Fiction category | Shortlisted for Best Crime Novel for Young Adults, CrimeFest Gala Awards 2017 | Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, Children's Book category, 2016 Laat ik beginnen met aangeven dat dit boek me al vanaf het begin niet bijzonder aansprak. Ik zou dit boek zelf nooit gekocht hebben in de boekwinkel. Dat komt met name omdat ik YA contemporaries in veel gevallen tegen vind vallen. Maar dat komt ook omdat ik merk dat de bendecultuur echt heel goed en invoelbaar geschreven moet zijn om voor mij herkenbaar te worden. Ik heb, en wellicht is dat een tekortkoming, moeite me daarmee te verbinden.

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Haar oudste zoon zat in het bende-milieu tot hij bij een auto-ongeluk hersenbeschadiging opliep. Uit het boek blijkt dat ze heel wat met hem te stellen heeft gehad, maar ze heeft hem nooit laten vallen. Als Marlon dan ook verzeild raakt in een ongemakkelijke en gevaarlijke situatie, was het voor mij dan ook absoluut niet begrijpelijk waarom hij zijn moeder niet in vertrouwen neemt en eerlijk vertelt wat er gebeurd is.year old Marlon has promised his mum that he will stay out of trouble. But now he’s being hunted. They’re looking for Mr Orange and they’ll use Marlon to get him. Plotting and pacing: This is a strong aspect of the novel. It’s a pacey read, with plenty going on in poor Marlon’s life. There’s the whole ‘Mr Orange’ mystery, but there’s also plenty of conflict and mess in his family life too. I enjoyed the thread about his Dad, and the way this was linked in through music – I think that’s a key way a lot of people relate through the generations, which isn’t always noted, so it was nice to see it brought out here. Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. NOT ANY MORE. NOT SINCE MR ORANGE. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise - he'll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. So far, it's been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. They're after the mysterious Mr Orange, and they're going to use Marlon to get to him. Marlon's out of choices - can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves? This is an all-action, fast-paced YA urban thriller, but it’s also an intensely emotional story. It offers a look at how living with fear is the lot of those who willingly or inadvertently tangle with the bad guys, or ‘badmen’ as Marlon calls them. Additionally, it’s a novel about family. The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have...

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Orangeboy was shortlisted for the Costa Award and won the Waterstones Prize for Older Children’s fiction.The Orange Boy has two inventory slots that can be accessed when alive and grabbed by the player. Any small items can be stored here, but they're mostly for the Pet Name Tag if the player wishes to name the Pet. If it dies, the body will splatter and any contents in its inventory will be destroyed. In October 2021, Lawrence was announced as taking on the role of ambassador for First Story, a charity promoting creative writing for young people, with a focus on those in low-income communities. [16] Faced with almost impossible choices, Marlon has to grow up fast and work out exactly who he is at the same time as working out how to survive.

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This is a book that explores the meaning of family, friendship and loyalty. And it does so with intelligence and sensitivity. Use tools to understand your organization's market reach, customer retention and customer engagement levels compared to others. Danuta Kean, "Waterstones children's prize shortlists reflect readers' search for hope in anxious times", The Guardian, 8 February 2017. Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. I was the kid people looked straight through. Not any more. Not Since Mr Orange. Automated Net Promoter Scoring (NPS) makes it easy to understand customer library experiences to build customer loyalty.

stars. I don't know how to evaluate this book fairly. It had its strong points, and it covers subject matter which is probably of interest to many teens, but I didn't enjoy reading it at all. I had to drag myself through it, and even the suspenseful elements didn't drive me through the plot. Also, it felt overlong - and the narrative jumped and 'jived' (lots of street lingo) in a way that meant I couldn't just skim it. Having said all that: it was the YA Book Prize winner for 2017, and I respect that I was probably just not the right reader for this book.

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Orangeboy: Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Children, winner of the YA Book Prize", Waterstones. Maar ik had wel heel veel moeite met de hoofdpersoon en de keuzes die hij maakte. Misschien ben ik hier simpelweg te oud voor. Ik weet dat ik als tiener ook een hoop achterhield voor mijn moeder, maar dan nog. Marlons moeder komt op mij over als een begripvolle moeder die ondanks de tegenslagen in haar leven verwoed haar best doet er iets van te maken en haar twee jongens alle kansen wil geven om hogerop te komen. At the start of this book, I thought that Marlon was great. He really had his head screwed on right, he was a smart kid, a kid I could believe in... But by the end? Not so much. (This is a good thing).An Interview with Costa Shortlisted Author Patrice Lawrence", Books For Keeps, No. 221, November 2016.