On my very first day, I was talking in line outside, and the next thing I knew, I was looking up at the sky. Your selection was perfect for our children and what really made the difference was your ability to engage with each child, discuss their interests and help them to choose a suitable book based on your extensive knowledge of the books you were selling.

Lark is the fourth and final story of brothers Nicky and Kenny, a tale modern poverty, the highs and lows of adolescence, and life with learning difficulties told across a sequence of short novellas. The lark is an appropriate symbol for this book, for this is the lark ascending, which can be realised only through separation. What was meant to be ‘ a stroll, a laugh,’ a lark, is set to become a test of brotherly bonds and a fight for their very survival.The book was longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize [13] and the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and the Young Minds Book Award.

Instead, the book opens with Kenny’s words – ‘I don’t bloody like it’ – plunging us straight into the plot of the book, in which the risk is not to the animal but to the boys themselves. Great for Reluctant Readers – Teens and Young Adults / ISBN 9781781128435 Purchase this product now and earn 32 Points!

It’s been my biggest ever writing challenge, and I hope you feel as intensely about it as I did as I wrote it. Although Kenny is the older brother, for most of the series the emphasis is on Nicky’s role as his carer, because Kenny has a learning disability – or, as Nicky puts it in the first book, Brock, he is ‘simple’, in the sense that ‘He hasn’t got all the stuff going on that messes up other people’s heads. McGowan went on to study Philosophy and Politics at Manchester University, obtaining a BA in 1986 and an M. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Lark was recommended for readers who lose concentration, struggle with longer sentences and chapters etc. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Parents - please ask your children's schools to take the free training and empower Dyslexic Thinking today. It is the story of a boy who, after hearing his parents arguing, comes to believe that he is responsible for the death of Father Christmas, and thus must take his place. But in this tale, things have finally started to go right and the boys set out to have an adventure in the Countryside.It's all very well to buoy up Kenny with stories he has thought up -- until they find themselves embroiled in a real-life story which mayn't have a happy ending.

No sooner do they get on the hills but the clouds gather and very soon they find themselves in a blizzard. It kept my son interested (he loved all the sweary bits) and the story was interesting and definitely thrilling. The Barrington Stoke area in the warehouse is all topped up again plus 4 brand new titles have come in!I also confess that I booed my eyes out at the last few pages, and this was rather inconvenient, as just at that moment the postman turned up, and as I handed him his Christmas box of Milk Tray, I had to explain why tears were running down my face! In addition to his 2020 win, he has been twice longlisted (for The Knife That Killed Me in 2008 and Brock in 2014) and once shortlisted (for Rook in 2018) for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and is the winner of the 2006 Booktrust Teenage Prize for Henry Tumour. It’s about two brothers who go for a walk on the moors with their dog Tina - but also about so much more than that.