Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life. But his life is changed for ever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws
only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.
This is Book 34 in the Rollercoasters Series. See all Rollercoasters books here.
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Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. After finishing his degree he worked variously as a warehouse operative, a careworker, and in marketing and local government administration. He decided to pursue his writing seriously in 2005, and has completed several feature screenplays since then. Pigeon English is his first novel; he is currently working on his s
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