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Being

Kevin Brooks

2007323 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2007
first published
  • 2007Chicken House/Scholastic · 323 pages · ENGISBN 9780439899734
  • 2009Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141910574
  • 2008Push · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780439903424

Sixteen-year-old Robert lies anaesthetized. A routine operation has just gone wrong.'What the hell is that?''That, Mr Ryan, is the inside of this boy.''Christ . . . It looks like some kind of plastic.'As Robert slowly wakes, he can hear, he can feel, but he can't scream. The operation isn't over. But life, as Robert knows it, is.Robert goes on the run, terrified and desperate for answers. But what if the answers are too terrifying to face?This is Kevin Brooks at his very best - powerful, intense, page-turning reading for teenage readers and beyond.

How it feels

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
Character focusSingle lead
ComplexityLayered

Worth knowing

Written forMiddle grade
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