Wall by Phethean, Ellen

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Title:	Wall
Author:	Phethean, Ellen
Publisher:	Smokestack Books
Format:	Paperback
ISBN:	0-955106-16-8	Pages:	160
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Wall by Phethean, Ellen Fifteen year-old Kylie is in trouble. Her Mam is depressed, her Dad spends all his time with his pigeons, her brother is involved with drugs. And now Kylie is pregnant. Set on the Byker Wall estate in Newcastle, Wall is a novel for teenagers in verse. As Kylie and her family struggle to hold their lives together, they tell their stories in their own words, painful testimonies in the language of text, grafitti, rap, rhyme, a hand-written note on a table, a message left on an answerphone. Wall is about the erosion of a working-class community. It asks important questions about class, generation, love and endurance. And it asserts the precarious survival of love, loyalty and hope. Wall is about the walls we build inside ourselves and between ourselves, the walls, which protect and the walls, which divide. Will Kylie keep her baby? And will it grow up to be just another brick in the wall? The real Byker Grove
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