The two different POVs added something extra to this book. Even if they hadn't been written in different font (nice touch), their voices were so different that you immediately knew they were from different characters. One was much more sinister and his story was slowly revealed throughout. I thought this was really well done.

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Link meets a young man named Ginger, and the two become friends. They live and beg together, and Ginger teaches Link the finer points of surviving on the streets. There were many themes that ran throughout the novel which meant that the actual plot wasn’t boring. The theme of loss is shown when Link leaves his house and loses basically everything and is forced onto the street. Adventure and courage are both shown when Link is on the street and has to stand up for himself and only survives on what he gets from begging. Even love is shown in the novel when Link meets a beautiful lady named Gail who he instantly falls in love with after seeing her. The character of Link, is a 17-year-old, is distrustful towards everyone… Until he pairs up with Deb, who is another homeless youngster.Throughout, bland and occasionally awkward language (is "poncy-looking dude" really appropriate for a sixteen-year-old teen from 1993, Bradford?) distract and disinter the more mature reader, but there are a couple of stand out moments: First, Link's rejection of the (likely left-leaning) investigative journalist who is, in fact, out there to help him and raise awarenessof youth homelessness. This rejection is comparable with Link's earlier - and rightful - eschewing of 'solcredulists', otherwise known as people who swallow everything given to them by The Sun newspaper and, as a result, ignore homeless kids. In a cruel twist of irony, Link ends up conflating the two differing publications and, instead of seeking solace and raising awareness, continue his miserable life on the streets. It's a neat representation of the self-destructive downward spiral symbolising homelessness. Alternatively, Link's rejection of Gail/Louise can be seen as the character feeling such a degree of betrayal that he brazenly pushes aside help in a rash act of naive and youth-driven emotion over brains. Either way you want to read it, it's a powerful moment. The subject matter is not a nice one but I thought it was dealt with well - it was honest, didn't shy from the horrible bits, and didn't overly dramatise/romantise it. It helped raise an important issue in a realistic way. The writing (often in vernacular) was very engaging and relatable. I thought this was an effective way of helping us understand the characters better.

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Bradford City Council Worth Valley By-election results" (PDF). Bradford City Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2012. Shelter is getting used to his new name and enjoys the anticipation of starting his plan involving homeless people. He first won the Red House Children's Book Award with Brother in the Land (1984), a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Swindells was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and is quoted as saying that the work "... came out of my own anger and frustration ... you can't kill selectively with nuclear weapons, you wipe out millions of people ...". He won three more Red House awards for Room (13), Nightmare Stairs (Short novel, 1998) and Blitzed (Younger readers, 2003). Shelter: Shelter is a 47-year-old man who has retired from army. He is a psychopath serial killer, prowling the streets of London on a mission to rid the city of “dossers,” as he calls them. He talks about street kids and kills many of them, because he hates them “I can clean up the garbage, can’t I? They can’t stop me doing that and I will, by golly I will.” As you can see by the way he talks, he seems dangerous. He is actually making an army of ‘dead people.’ He acts soft from outside that you can’t even think of such a guy can commit a murder. He thinks that he is doing a good job by killing homeless people. He thinks he is an intelligent serial killer as he goes on a killing spree without being caught. He is really confident, or should I say over confident about no one catching him. He persuades people on the street (homeless) to come to his house for free food and a warm bed and when they come he kills them. He keeps the ‘dead people’ army under his floorboard. He buys them shoes and cut their hairs. I dislike this character because of his cruelty to towards homeless people. If u would read this book you will start to make an extremely bad image of shelter in your mind. I read some of this with school. Normally when you read books with school you never finish them and they always tend to be quite boring. Well according to my stereotype i did never finish it but it wasnt actually that boring, although in some parts iI'm not gonna lie were boring. Me and my friend were just dreading the idea of having to get this book out and read yet another chapter. In the end though we agreed that it was in actual fact wasn't as bad as we initially thought.I can't remember this much but i swear there was a murder thing going on but i will have to find out as my memory is so bad and I am not even joking on this matter. urn:lcp:stonecoldpuffint00robe:epub:c797206c-4702-4320-8bc0-22ec0ff1ff81 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier stonecoldpuffint00robe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2v41zp1w Isbn 0140362517 I'd say that interestingly the main character was about a homeless person not having a good relationship with family and deciding to become homeless. It was interesting because you wouldn't think that many interesting points can come across in this but in actual fact there were. Link is seventeen when he leaves home in the north of England for London, to escape family issues. He can’t find work and is soon homeless. He meets up with Ginger and makes a friend, but then Ginger disappears. I used this for my mixed ability class, but especially for one of my students whose Levels in English have ranged from 5b to 7b throughout Year 9!

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Carnegie Winner 1993. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2018-02-28. Carnegie Medal Award". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University ( CCSU). Retrieved 13 July 2012.One day, Ginger decides to meet his old friends. Link waits for him, but he doesn't return. It transpires that Shelter has abducted Ginger by telling him that Link was at his apartment, badly injured. Link finds out Ginger has been murdered. Shelter goes on a walk around Charing Cross railway station and notices plenty of homeless people. One of the young ones asks him for money and Shelter gets angry, threatening to turn him into a soldier if he was in the National Service. Shelter recalls the boys under his command while he was a sergeant in the army. He reveals that he was discharged on medical grounds after twenty-nine years of service. He is frustrated because there is nothing medically wrong with him, and anticipates getting rid of the useless people who roam the streets. The book is primarily about this despondent teenager suffering from homelessness, however the author clearly thought that the book wasn't bleak enough and, as a result, decided to incorporate a psychotic serial killer into the story too. I'm not going to say any more about it but hopefully that's peaked your interest.

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Cold (Heinemann, 1993), which dealt with homelessness, he won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognizing the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. [1] Biography [ edit ] I liked the length of the book - easy for the target audience (teenagers) to read, and digest and easy for me to speed through it when I didn't want to put it down! Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-05-17 17:29:30 Boxid IA155101 Boxid_2 CH123201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor

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Shelter adopts a cat named Sappho. Although he dislikes cats, he feels excited because the animal gives people the illusion that he is a friendly, inoffensive man. He feels that the cat is going to help him in his mission, which he is prepared to begin. Supplemental understanding of the topic including revealing main issues described in the particular theme; The title of Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-Winning thriller, created by the author Robert Swindells. This intense thriller plot has been combined with the perceptive and distressing portrait of what life is like on the streets, as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable people of the homeless.