Advantages: Genuinely honest look at a teenage boy growing up Disadvantages: May be overlooked due to the dynamic novels of today
The novel Buddy is suitable for readers aged 10-16 and has been frequently used in secondary schools as a class reader. However, adults may find it entertaining and may like to read it also. It is a good novel with the availability of two sequels as well as a drama and a film based on the sequel Buddy's song (with Roger Daltrey as Buddy's dad and Chesney Hawke as Buddy himself with the infamous song "One and Only")
Nigel Hinton is a confirmed novelist ... ...is easy to see why. Buddy is a realistic look at social issues today without becoming too heavy.
Buddy Clark is the main character and is growing up in a house with very little money with his Buddy Holly loving Teddy Boy father and his increasingly dissatisfied mother. After Buddy steals some money for a school trip and his mother leaves home, the story revolves around Buddy's trying to make sense of the world around him.
Despite being written ...
Ohajiki 19.11.2007
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and living on the fringes of the under-world. When Buddy's mum walks out the two manage to strike up some kind of relationship - until Buddy realizes that his dad ...
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