Pigeon EnglishPigeon English
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eBook, 2011
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Current format, eBook, 2011, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsThe spellbinding story of a boy learning to survive inner-city England ; but when he starts his own murder investigation, local thugs are not amused... Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku is the second best runner in the whole of Year 7. Harri races through his new life in England in his Adidas trainers ; blissfully unaware of the threats around him. With equal fascination for the local gang ; the Dell Farm Crew ; and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new home: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival. But when a boy is knifed to death, Harri starts a murder investigation of his own and endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe. A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a superb portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape who he becomes.
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- Toronto : House of Anansi Press Incorporated, 2011.
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