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Northamptonshire Schools Library Service Virtual Reading Group

What I Was by Meg Rosoff March 17, 2008

What I Was by Meg Rosoff 

This is a wonderful book! I loved the story of this unhappy teenager sent to a miserable boarding school in the 1960’s, a disppointment to his parents and unwilling to conform to fit in with the expectations of his third school.

His dull existance is transformed when he meets Finn, a mysterious teenager who lives alone in a beach hut and fends entirely for himself. The meetings with Finn become the centre of our characters world and he is unable to think of anything else.

The idyllic times are not to last and the story becomes tense with the dangers which face each character and I found this book exciting, dramatic, sensitive and a brilliant read.

Lesley, Oakgrove School

 

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