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www.annefine.co.uk/Publisher
Corgi Childrens an imprint of Random House Children's BooksPublication date
31st May 2007ISBN
9780552554930Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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The Road Of Bones
Anne Fine
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize 2007. An epic story of survival that raises important questions about totalitarian governments and the imposition of social change. For years Yuri has watched the devastating effect of oppression on his own life and on those around him. Things come to a head when he complains about safety at work following an accident in which his friends die. To avoid arrest, Yuri goes on the run. On his flight through the countryside he witnesses the despair of all; speaking out again, he is arrested and transported to a labour camp where he develops the hard hearted skills of survival.Yuri’s story tells how an individual survives in a particularly harsh environment but it is also a parable about growing up and surviving challenge at any time.
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Synopsis
The Road Of Bones by Anne FineBefore I was even seven, I swear I could spell ‘The Glorious Revolution’… ‘Glorious Lie, more like,’ is what Yuri’s grandmother calls it. Everyone believes what they’re told and everyone knows who to cheer for, now that the Czar has gone. But people still vanish sometimes.No one sees anything, or hears anything. And no one ever comes back. Yuri knows this. But he never dreams that he too could be considered an ‘enemy of the state’ simply for letting drop a few careless words. Now he’s taking his first steps on a road to despair, to a virtual death-sentence - a nightmare journey up north to a camp amidst the frozen wastes. What, or who, can he possibly believe in now? Can he even survive? And is escape possible...?
About The Author
Anne Fine was our Guest Editor in July 2011. Click here to see the books she selected.
Anne Fine was born and educated in the Midlands and now lives in County Durham. She has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults.
Her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal and was adapted for television by the BBC; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize, and Madame Doubtfire became the major feature film 'Mrs Doubtfire' starring Robin Williams. Anne was named Children's Laureate in 2002 and made an OBE for services to children's literature in 2003.
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