Face

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And although his old friends melted away from him, I was glad that Martin was able to make other friends. Even in the scene when he looked at his horribly burned and disfigured face for the first time, I was thinking more about how terrible that has to be for anyone rather than feeling especially bad that it happened to the main character, if that makes sense.

It also shows us a strong young protagonist who is able to deal with the situation maturely and learn as it goes on. But when his world is turned upside down by a crash in a stolen car, he has to come to terms with more than his facial injuries…. I just read it, then at the end, when I found out it was Benjamin Z and he was only 'up the road' in Birmingham, I loved it more.Plot-wise, it follows the story of a kid who gets into a car accident and who badly injures his face. Through this trial he discovers who his true friends are, the difference between love and lust, and what it really means to be beautiful. Stimulating activities in the book and a free downloadable scheme of work available to download on publication.

Zephaniah shows the different ways in which the society/world reacts to huge physical changes and how difficult it can be to cope with it. It perfectly executes a change in character for Martin, who you go from having a distaste to, to supporting every step of his lifechanging journey. meh 🤔🤔🤔🤔 o sea lo leí en inglés y está bueno porque tiene vocabulario y eso pero la historia medio que no me enganchó taaanto.

He lives in the 'new East End' where there is a difficult brew of white, Caribbean, African and Asian families. While they seemed like they could have been more interesting it also seemed as though they were assigned one character trait and that was the whole basis of who they were.