CONCENTR8 BLOOMSBURY
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
In a future London Concentr8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD Soon every troubled teen is on it It makes sense doesn t it Keep the undesirable elements in line Keep people like us safe from people like them What s good for society is good for everyone Troy Femi Lee Karen and Blaze have been taking Concentr8 as long as they can remember They re not exactly a gang but Blaze is their leader and Troy has always been his quiet watchful sidekick the only one Blaze really trusts They re not looking for trouble but one hot summer day when riots break out across the city they find it What makes five kids pick a man seemingly at random a nobody he works in the housing department doesn t even have a good phone hold a knife to his side take him to a warehouse and chain him to a radiator They ve got a hostage but don t really know what they want or why they ve done it And across the course of five tense days with a journalist a floppy haired mayor a police negotiator and the sinister face of the pharmaceutical industry they and we begin to understand why This is a book about what how we label children It s about how kids get lost and failed by the system It s about how politicians manipulate them Gripping and controversial reading for fans of Malorie Blackman and Patrick Ness Yayınevi BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING Yazar WILLIAM SUTCLIFFE Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 240 Yıl 2016
