Concentr8
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Concentr8
By (Author) William Sutcliffe
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
27th July 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
Young Adult
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for "The Bookseller" YA Book Prize 2016
Physical Properties
Paperback
324
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
182g
Description
In a future London, Concentr8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD. Soon every troubled teen is on it. It makes sense, doesnt it Keep the undesirable elements in line. Keep people like us safe from people like them. Whats good for society is good for everyone. Troy, Femi, Lee, Karen and Blaze have been taking Concentr8 as long as they can remember. Theyre not exactly a gang, but Blaze is their leader, and Troy has always been his quiet, watchful sidekick the only one Blaze really trusts. Theyre not looking for trouble, but one hot summer day, when riots break out across the city, they find it. What makes five kids pick a man seemingly at random a nobody, he works in the housing department, doesnt even have a good phone hold a knife to his side, take him to a warehouse and chain him to a radiator Theyve got a hostage, but dont really know what they want, or why theyve done it. And across the course of five tense days, with a journalist, a floppy-haired mayor, a police negotiator, and the sinister face of the pharmaceutical industry, they and we begin to understand why ... This is a book about what how we label children. Its about how kids get lost and failed by the system. Its about how politicians manipulate them. Gripping and controversial reading for fans of Malorie Blackman and Patrick Ness.
Author Bio
William Sutcliffe is the author of twelve novels, including the international bestseller Are You Experienced and The Wall, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He has written for adults, young adults and children, and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. His 2008 novel Whatever Makes You Happy is now a Netflix Original film starring Patricia Arquette, Felicity Huffman and Angela Bassett. It was released in August 2019 under the title Otherhood. His latest novel, The Gifted, The Talented and Me, was described by The Times as dangerously funny and by the Guardian as refreshingly hilarious.
