Inventing Elliot (Dolphin Paperbacks)

by Graham Gardner | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1842552082 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Beqi of Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on 8/13/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by Beqi from Daventry, Northamptonshire United Kingdom on Friday, August 13, 2010
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After being bullied mercilessly, Elliot is determined to reinvent himself when he moves house with Mum and Dad and goes to a new school. He is going to be so cool that no one will touch him. He's going to stand out just enough not to get noticed. But he is too successful, and he does get noticed by the Guardians. They are a mysterious group of three who manipulate others and run the school with a reign of terror. They invite Elliot to become one of them. He faces an agonising decision, whether to use this new found power or risk standing up for himself and facing the consequences.

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Elliot's life has been spinning out of control. He would give anything to get back to normal. Now, at his new school, he has a chance to reinvent himself. He will make himself so cool, so out of reach, that no one will hurt him ever again. The plan succeeds beyond his wildest dreams. And then beyond his wildest nightmare. Elliot is noticed by the Guardians, the mysterious, manipulative group who run the school according to their own very special rules. They want him to become one of them. For the first time, Elliot has power. But power comes at a terrible price, and Elliot faces an impossible choice when he has to decide how to use it. Inspired by George Orwell's 1984, Graham Gardner's debut novel about the terrors and rituals of surviving adolescence is intense, searching, poignant and dramatic. You are there, with Elliot, every step of the way. Graham Gardner is an academic researcher and author, specialising in social and political geography, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Prior to this he has had many jobs, including shop assistant, civil servant, research officer, waiter and factory worker. He is also a keen musician, playing rock and classical piano. He is the second eldest of ten children, and was born and brought up in Worcestershire. He divides his time between his flat in Aberystwyth and his parents' house in the Malvern Hills. Inventing Elliot is his first published novel.

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