Barrington Stoke 4u2read: Contact Award-winning author by Malorie Blackman (author) and Paul Fisher (illustrator)

Cal and Jenna risk everything by breaking strict Non-Contact rules in this exciting futuristic drama about acceptance, trust and teamwork from award-winning author Malorie Blackman.

In a post-apocalyptic world where everyone wears Non-Contact suits to survive and where you can never touch another person directly, Cal and Jenna have formed a football team. Not virtual – real football, with real contact. But Jenna’s horrible twin Jacob is suspicious and it looks like they’re headed for disaster…Can the team reach out to Jacob and convince him that making contact is also what makes us feel alive?

Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 7.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781781124604

Publisher

Barrington Stoke Ltd

Date published

April 2nd, 2015

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.6; Middle years plus; 0.5 points

Other details

64 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over fifty books and is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Her best-loved books include the highly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence and Pig Heart Boy, which also became a major BBC TV series. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children’s Book Award, and has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children’s books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature. She has been described by The Times as ‘a national treasure’ and was the Children’s Laureate 2013-15.