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A review by opheliastephanie
Cardboard Cowboys by Brian Conaghan
5.0
What the (middle grade) world needs right now? This book.
This was absolutely brilliant. As a bookseller I can tell you that children read a great deal in Primary school but we start to lose them to homework, technology and a lack of books that are excellently written with a strong story. This is a book to bring readers back.
I was a little worried at the beginning as there is quite a lot of colloquialism and as I meet a lot of children with English as their 2nd/3rd language then this can be off-putting but the story had enough pull and mystery that I carried on reading and oh my goodness I am so thrilled I did.
You can read about the book in the blurb, I just want to use up all this space to try to encourage people to pick it up and read it themselves or buy it for all the children aged 9-15 that they know!
This was absolutely brilliant. As a bookseller I can tell you that children read a great deal in Primary school but we start to lose them to homework, technology and a lack of books that are excellently written with a strong story. This is a book to bring readers back.
I was a little worried at the beginning as there is quite a lot of colloquialism and as I meet a lot of children with English as their 2nd/3rd language then this can be off-putting but the story had enough pull and mystery that I carried on reading and oh my goodness I am so thrilled I did.
You can read about the book in the blurb, I just want to use up all this space to try to encourage people to pick it up and read it themselves or buy it for all the children aged 9-15 that they know!