Phillip Gwynne is the award-winning author of such books as Deadly Unna? and this is his latest. Like Deadly Unna?, it deals with a male teenager who has to find himself and come to terms with issues of family and love. There is no race discourse in Swerve and it seems to be less complex [...]
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Merchant of Death was a great read with lots of action and is told through a series of journals from Bobby Pendragon, a fairly normal teenager until his uncle takes him on a weird trip through a magic doorway into other worlds where he solves the problems of the people who live in these places/alternate dimensions. Excellent series.
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Obviously not all the time, and not with relation to everything, but when it comes to reading, things are a lot easier than I recall.
As a child, I remember reading Willard Price, Biggles, the Hardy Boys and the Three Investigators. There must have been other stuff, too, but I can’t recall what those books were. [...]
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