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Sheena Wilkinson

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Werken van Sheena Wilkinson

Star by star (2017) 65 exemplaren
Name Upon Name (2015) 47 exemplaren
Taking Flight (2010) 17 exemplaren
Grounded (2012) 14 exemplaren
Street Song (2017) 11 exemplaren
Still Falling (1600) 9 exemplaren
Too Many Ponies (2013) 7 exemplaren
Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau (2023) 6 exemplaren
Hope against Hope (2020) 4 exemplaren

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Northern Ireland
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Gritty romance worth a read

Street song is well worth a read - I'd give it four and a half stars but Amazon doesn't do fractions. It's a story about a young man who has talent but lets himself be manipulated, who fails and falls. Ryan Lee Callaghan is RyLee, one time PopIdol; he lacks real confidence; his wild and sudden success undoes him & he takes to drugs... His meteoric career flashes out of existence. He feels he is nothing. After a final confrontation with his one time manager - & step father - he ends up in Belfast. While strumming a guitar and wondering what to do he meets Toni, a member of a two girl band called Polly Tree. Toni is a poor guitarist but a fine singer. Ryan, calling himself Cal for fear that his past will come back and bite him, ends up joining the band. The band clicks and things are looking up... Then the past and all the weak things that are RyLee come back to haunt his would be happy story... He becomes a song of the street, a dirge really.… (meer)
 
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StephenKimber | Mar 5, 2021 |
The main character Stella is fantastic and overall the story is interesting and important. It feels very unfinished though which is a disappointment.
 
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PhilippaHorsell | Sep 13, 2019 |
I will ask How is that possible I haven't heard and read reviews on this book from other bookish people? The book has been published on 2015 and I read it only now.
This is so beautiful, interesting and amazing YA read! It touches so many topics and not the easy love story ones, it has a beautiful, realistic depth. I was glued reading this all Sunday and as much as I enjoyed I did not wanted come to the last page and place the book down and bring it back to the library! I loved it, I loved it. Oh, will try not to go into spoilers..

So the story is about Luke starting a new school in Belfast and a new year with new foster care parents. "Parents" do sound weird and Luke doesn't believe how foster care parents can ever love or CARE about him or anyone who comes into foster care. But he doesn't want to be noticed and tries his best to be just a shadow...until his first day in school is ruined by his epilepsy seizure. He makes it through thanks to his classmate Esther who seems to know exactly what need to be done when someone has a seizure. Some completely new experience, that is like a starting point of the wheel and a love story between them too, they do get involved in classmate drama, characteristics and old demons breaking in. But it also sums up the beauty of beautiful and smart friendship.

The author has excellently described and the roles of the other "drama, fame girls" that I am so glad I am no more a teenager who has to go with some in the same class every day and deal with this childish behavior, well some act that way all their lives, anyway - Still Falling perfectly handles parents of both sides, many climax situation in the plot and I was surprised how much I enjoyed this Ya.

This was a challenge read because I am not very familiar with school system in Ireland and having Religion class in High School was something completely new. I do associate ethics in the last year before High School , so that's 15/16 age and at first year either ethics or religion for pupils aged 7. This book gave this insight of community and it wasn't anything disturbing or boring, instead complete opposite - emotional and fantastic read!
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ilonita50 | Jun 4, 2017 |

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10
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Leden
195
Populariteit
#112,377
Waardering
3.8
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3
ISBNs
25

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