by Kevin Brooks · Chicken House Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9781903434765
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«Lucas» is the young adult novel by Kevin Brooks, published by Chicken House Ltd in hardback (360 pages, in English).
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin sees her life transformed when she meets Lucas, a mysterious outsider boy whose presence unsettles the inhabitants. Her relationship with him confronts her with the prejudices and hostility of the community, in a story about the transition from adolescence to maturity, love and hate.
The cover bears the subtitle «A Story of Love and Hate». Originally published on 26 December 2002, it won several youth awards, including the youth prize of the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and the Buxtehuder Bulle.
Recommended for young people from around 12 years old, especially for those who enjoy realistic and contemporary young adult fiction about personal growth.
Kevin M. Brooks is an English writer. He is best known for young adult novels. His The Bunker Diary, published by Penguin Books in 2013, won the annual Carnegie Medal as the best new book for children or young adults published in the UK. It was a controversial selection by the British librarians.
