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Blade

Tim Bowler

2008160 pagesabout 2–4 hours
2008
first published
  • 2009Philomel Books · ENGISBN 9780399251863
  • 2010Philomel Books · ENGISBN 9780399251870
  • 2008Oxford University Press · 160 pagesISBN 9780192754844

A fourteen-year-old British street person with extraordinary powers of observation and self-control must face murderous thugs connected with a past he has tried to forget, when his skills with a knife earned him the nickname, Blade.

How it feels

Emotional toneUnflinching
AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

ComplexityLayered

Worth knowing

When and where

ThemesJustice
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